The Skin I Live In (2011)

Better Late Then Never

Best movie of this year hands down!

Blistering performances.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Almodóvar presents us with a very original story filled with eccentric characters, lots of sex and the right amount of suspense. The best thing about this film is definitely the script, which slowly unravels the mystery of Vera's character while exploring the rest of the cast in a nonlinear fashion. Antonio Banderas and Vera Cruz are both great, and the cinematography is also chosen with care. The climax might be where the film is weakest, as the decision Vera takes is too important to be motivated just because of a newspaper. The last scene, however, gives the film its heart and makes me wonder if it would have been a stronger film if it had had Vera as a clear protagonist from the start.

The Skin I Live in is a very disturbing movie about plastic surgery, and if you are easily disturbed I suggest you know what you're in for. This Spanish horror movie stars Antonio Banderas as an obsessed plastic surgeon called Robert Ledgard that looks for the way to make the perfect skin and who gives a subtly eerie performance that visualizes the insanity of obsession, breaking thick boundaries to get there. Unexpectedly, the film then entirely develops into a horrific nightmare that gets more frightening as it goes along, with Robert Ledgard going to extreme lengths to create the skin as perfect as possible. There have been a lot of shocking scenes in this film that have stuck in my memory for a few days now and have troubled my mind hauntingly, and that effect on a two hour event gets my dearest respect for the courage it has to not play it safe and keep away from disturbing it's audience. The soundtrack, editing and cinematography then top it all off, creating an extremely disturbing horror movie that is repulsing and at the same time frighteningly fascinating.

It's my first Pedro Almodóvar's movie.i decided to watch other movies.İ have too much emotion while watching movie.That is power of movie.Most of users say acting is perfect especially Antonio Banderas(Robert).İ agree with them but beyond the acting the scenario is very well structured.

This movie is unbelievable sick. But it pulls you into the story so deep that all that sickness, instead of being shocking, seems like natural flow of things... This might easily be the best Almodovar so far...9/10