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A Rage That Knows No Right or Wrong: Almodóvar‘s The Skin I Live In Teaser

By Cindy Davis | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (13)

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Describing his latest work, Pedro Almodovar said, “…(it) will be a terror film, without screams or scares. It’s the harshest film I’ve ever written, and Banderas’ character is brutal.” Based on Thierry Jonquet’s novel, Mygale (though some sources list a different novel, Tarantula, and both synopses seem to fit), The Skin I Live In reunites the director with frequent collaborator Antonio Banderas. Banderas plays Dr. Robert Ledgard, a plastic surgeon whose wife was horribly burned in a car crash. Obsessed with creating a new skin for her, the doctor is also carrying out some dark vendetta against the man who raped his daughter.

Here are a couple of production stills:

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But it’s this quick teaser that gives one a deliciously evil feeling about what’s to come:


And it does exactly what it should do, it teases us into wanting more. Man, do I want more.

The Skin I Live In also stars Elena Anaya (Van Helsing, Sex and Lucia, Talk to Her), Marisa Paredes (Life is Beautiful, All About My Mother, The Devil’s Backbone), José Luis Gómez (Goya’s Ghosts, Broken Embraces) and Eduard Fernández (Biutiful) and will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The U.S. release is set for November 18, 2011.









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Comments

The basic setup (and the facemask) reminds me a lot of Eyes Without a Face, but with the wife instead of a daughter. Interesting.

Posted by: Nat Kittyface at May 17, 2011 6:24 PM

Highly unlikely to be better than Franju's "Eyes without a face", of which this seems to be an unacknowledged ripoff/remake/homage/thingy, no?

Posted by: scarecrowprophet at May 17, 2011 6:25 PM

Sorry Nat; beat me to it.

Posted by: scarecrowprophet at May 17, 2011 6:26 PM

Soooo, he is going to create a Buffalo Bill inspired new skin suit for his wife out of this somewhat reluctant donor?

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at May 17, 2011 6:30 PM

'My wife is an egg!' I'll watch this just for the Banderas.

Posted by: Alex at May 17, 2011 6:36 PM

Mygale translates to tarantula.

Posted by: Sad Rockstar at May 17, 2011 6:59 PM

Just finished reading Tarantula a few weeks ago its short and sweet. Actually not sweet more fucked and disturbing but I liked it and its a quick read. Bought it off amazon and it shipped from germany. Which i thought was weird since its in English.

Posted by: Sad Rockstar at May 17, 2011 7:02 PM

Actually not sweet more fucked and disturbing
I was wondering about that. I'll watch it, since it's Almodovar, but no Penelope Cruz? He must do some disturbing shit to the females in this movie. He'd never sully the image of his Madonna.

Posted by: dorquemada at May 17, 2011 7:33 PM

dorquemada, Cruz was his first choice to star opposite Banderas, but it didn't work out. In the end, I'm glad--I think this will be more effective without the two playing off each other.

Posted by: Cindy at May 17, 2011 7:39 PM

Cindy, thanks for the info. And I heartily agree.

Posted by: dorquemada at May 17, 2011 7:46 PM

...so it's a comedy?

Posted by: chayes at May 17, 2011 10:41 PM

He should totally pull a Human Centipede on them.

Posted by: Anna von Beav at May 18, 2011 9:53 AM

"He should totally pull a Human Centipede on them."


Hmmmmm...
The Mouth I Shit In

Posted by: D-Day at May 18, 2011 11:56 AM