In October, we'll be celebrating the excellence of costume design in horror cinema.
by Cláudio Alves
Pedro Almodóvar's 19th feature harkens back to a time two decades earlier when the Spanish director was one of European cinema's most shameless provocateurs, an enfant terrible willing to rub the face of polite society in utter tastelessness, jolly amorality, and lustful perversity. Adapted from a novel by Thierry Jonquet, The Skin I Live In is a sordid tale that mixes melodrama with horror, handsome mad scientists and beautiful Frankenstein monsters. More than anything, as its title suggests, this is a film about skin and the places people inhabit…...
by Cláudio Alves
Pedro Almodóvar's 19th feature harkens back to a time two decades earlier when the Spanish director was one of European cinema's most shameless provocateurs, an enfant terrible willing to rub the face of polite society in utter tastelessness, jolly amorality, and lustful perversity. Adapted from a novel by Thierry Jonquet, The Skin I Live In is a sordid tale that mixes melodrama with horror, handsome mad scientists and beautiful Frankenstein monsters. More than anything, as its title suggests, this is a film about skin and the places people inhabit…...
- 10/3/2020
- by Cláudio Alves
- FilmExperience
If movies and TV are any indication, the future of online dating is very bleak. The streaming service that brought you the “Hang the DJ” episode of “Black Mirror” (which ended up being surprisingly hopeful!) is back with a story about how science and true love maybe weren’t meant to be mixed at all. The French series “Osmosis,” which premieres next month on Netflix, follows a group of participants in a new dating service that uses brainwaves to guarantee finding a soulmate. Some are eager participants, while others remain a little skeptical that a pill and a spot of time in a hallucination dome can bring about magical true love. But, as these things tend to do, it looks like the people in this trial end up giving a little bit more than their personal data when this effort starts to fall apart.
Series creator Audrey Fouché previously worked...
Series creator Audrey Fouché previously worked...
- 2/28/2019
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
CEO Reed Hastings spoke on the French set of ’Osmosis’
Netflix has confirmed a further push into France, with the opening of a new office in Paris next year, as well as investment in three new French-language drama series and the acquisition of another four local productions.
CEO Reed Hastings made the announcement to journalists on the set of the sci-fi drama series Osmosis in France on Thursday (Sept 27).
He said the new Paris outpost would initially employ some 20 people. It is the company’s third European operation, after its regional headquarters in Amsterdam and London offices. The latter is...
Netflix has confirmed a further push into France, with the opening of a new office in Paris next year, as well as investment in three new French-language drama series and the acquisition of another four local productions.
CEO Reed Hastings made the announcement to journalists on the set of the sci-fi drama series Osmosis in France on Thursday (Sept 27).
He said the new Paris outpost would initially employ some 20 people. It is the company’s third European operation, after its regional headquarters in Amsterdam and London offices. The latter is...
- 9/28/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Netflix is continuing to expand its international footprint with the launch of a Paris bureau, which follows Euro offices in Amsterdam and London and a recently announced production hub in Madrid, Spain.
A spokesperson for Netflix confirmed that the office will initially house around 20 employees, some of whom will be relocating from Amsterdam. The executives will work across production, acquisitions and marketing.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is in Paris today where the streaming giant made the announcement. He also confirmed that following discussions with France’s national film body, the Cnc, the company will start to pay 2% tax on its annual revenues in France.
The company previously had a small office in Paris but that closed down in 2016 prompting speculation that the firm wanted to seek more advantageous tax arrangements elsewhere in Europe. Relations with France have been more challenged than most markets due to the Cannes Film Festival snafu...
A spokesperson for Netflix confirmed that the office will initially house around 20 employees, some of whom will be relocating from Amsterdam. The executives will work across production, acquisitions and marketing.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is in Paris today where the streaming giant made the announcement. He also confirmed that following discussions with France’s national film body, the Cnc, the company will start to pay 2% tax on its annual revenues in France.
The company previously had a small office in Paris but that closed down in 2016 prompting speculation that the firm wanted to seek more advantageous tax arrangements elsewhere in Europe. Relations with France have been more challenged than most markets due to the Cannes Film Festival snafu...
- 9/27/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix is expanding its international footprint with the launch of a fully staffed Paris bureau, its third European outpost after Amsterdam and London.
The Paris office will kick off with about 20 employees, some of whom are already working for Netflix in Amsterdam, and others who will be new hires.
The French bureau won’t be dedicated to production as is the case in Spain, where Netflix recently bowed its first European production hub to make Spanish-language content. But it will be staffed with executives working across several fields, including production, acquisition, and marketing.
On Thursday, Netflix unveiled 7 new French series and film projects currently in the pipeline, including “Marianne,” a series based on Thierry Jonquet’s “Vampires” produced by Empreinte Digitale and Federation Entertainment; the documentary “Solidarité” written and directed by Stephane de Freitas (“A voix haute”); and the contemporary romance-drama movie “Paris est une fête” (working title) to be directed by Elisabeth Vogler.
The Paris office will kick off with about 20 employees, some of whom are already working for Netflix in Amsterdam, and others who will be new hires.
The French bureau won’t be dedicated to production as is the case in Spain, where Netflix recently bowed its first European production hub to make Spanish-language content. But it will be staffed with executives working across several fields, including production, acquisition, and marketing.
On Thursday, Netflix unveiled 7 new French series and film projects currently in the pipeline, including “Marianne,” a series based on Thierry Jonquet’s “Vampires” produced by Empreinte Digitale and Federation Entertainment; the documentary “Solidarité” written and directed by Stephane de Freitas (“A voix haute”); and the contemporary romance-drama movie “Paris est une fête” (working title) to be directed by Elisabeth Vogler.
- 9/27/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
English language film has long been a place for some of the greatest horror film directors of all time. All the way back to Alfred Hitchcock, we have seen the genre grow and develop sub-genres, thanks to the public’s ongoing thirst for fear and the possibility of danger around every turn. But, for every Saw or Hostel or terrible remake of classic English-language horror films, there are inventive, terrifying films made somewhere else that inspire and even outdo many of our best Western world horror films. This list will count down the fifty definitive horror films with a main language that isn’t English; some may have some English-language parts in them, but they are, for the most part, foreign. Enlighten yourself. Broaden your horizons. People can get murdered and tortured in every language.
50. Kuroneko (1968)
English Title: Black Cat
Directed by: Kaneto Shindo
Japanese for “Black Cat,” Kuroneko is...
50. Kuroneko (1968)
English Title: Black Cat
Directed by: Kaneto Shindo
Japanese for “Black Cat,” Kuroneko is...
- 10/23/2015
- by Joshua Gaul
- SoundOnSight
English language film has long been a place for some of the greatest horror film directors of all time. All the way back to Alfred Hitchcock, we have seen the genre grow and develop sub-genres, thanks to the public’s ongoing thirst for fear and the possibility of danger around every turn. But, for every Saw or Hostel or terrible remake of classic English-language horror films, there are inventive, terrifying films made somewhere else that inspire and even outdo many of our best Western world horror films. This list will count down the fifty definitive horror films with a main language that isn’t English; some may have some English-language parts in them, but they are, for the most part, foreign. Enlighten yourself. Broaden your horizons. People can get murdered and tortured in every language.
50. Kuroneko (1968)
English Title: Black Cat
Directed by: Kaneto Shindo
Japanese for “Black Cat,” Kuroneko is...
50. Kuroneko (1968)
English Title: Black Cat
Directed by: Kaneto Shindo
Japanese for “Black Cat,” Kuroneko is...
- 7/7/2014
- by Joshua Gaul
- SoundOnSight
Chicago – Almost as if he set out to defy critics who had started to think that the masterful Pedro Almodovar had lost a little bit of that psycho-sexual edge that made the first half of his career so unpredictable, the Oscar winner delivered “The Skin I Live In,” recently released on Blu-ray and DVD, and we all breathed a sigh of relief — Pedro hasn’t lost a damn thing. Highly underrated at the end of 2011, this was one of the best foreign films of 2011, featuring one of Antonio Banderas’ most spectacular performances in a film that goes from mystery to horror to something only Pedro could produce.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
“The Skin I Live In” is essentially a Dr. Frankenstein tale with a truly Pedro sensibility. Written by Almodovar from a novel by Thierry Jonquet, the film opens with the introduction of what seems like a very reasonable and intelligent man — Dr.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
“The Skin I Live In” is essentially a Dr. Frankenstein tale with a truly Pedro sensibility. Written by Almodovar from a novel by Thierry Jonquet, the film opens with the introduction of what seems like a very reasonable and intelligent man — Dr.
- 3/8/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Pedro Almodovar’s latest film, The Skin I Live In is a cold, calculating thriller that embraces the director’s trademark visual style and marries it beautifully with a mystery plot worthy of Hitchcock via Georges Franju’s seminal Les yeux sans visage (Eyes Without a Face).
For fans of Almodovar or foreign art house cinema at large who have any misgivings about this “genre” project, bear in mind Almodovar is a fan of cinema at large, and understands the language of cinema almost better than any director alive today. For fans of horror films, know that an earlier film of Almodovar, titled Matador, has Antonio Banderas masturbating while watching bits of Mario Bava’s Blood and Black Lace and Jess Franco’s Bloody Moon, so Almodovar is obviously horror literate. Any thoughts of, “Oh that art house guy from Spain is trying to make a horror movie” can be dispelled now.
For fans of Almodovar or foreign art house cinema at large who have any misgivings about this “genre” project, bear in mind Almodovar is a fan of cinema at large, and understands the language of cinema almost better than any director alive today. For fans of horror films, know that an earlier film of Almodovar, titled Matador, has Antonio Banderas masturbating while watching bits of Mario Bava’s Blood and Black Lace and Jess Franco’s Bloody Moon, so Almodovar is obviously horror literate. Any thoughts of, “Oh that art house guy from Spain is trying to make a horror movie” can be dispelled now.
- 3/6/2012
- by Derek Botelho
- DailyDead
Director Pedro Almodovar will lead the way at the 2012 Goya Awards after receiving 16 nominations for The Skin I Live In.
The thriller will go up against No Rest for the Wicked, The Sleeping Voice, and Blackthorn for the coveted best film prize at Spain's equivalent of the Oscars on 19 February.
Almodovar is also competing in the best director category, while his lead stars Antonio Banderas and Elena Anaya are up for the top acting prizes.
Almodovar's nominations haul comes after he rejoined Spain's Film Academy last year - he quit the institution in 2005 over repeated snubs.
His brother Agustin Almodovar, who produced The Skin I Live In, insists the filmmaker will be thrilled with the recognition, telling El Pais newspaper, "Pedro will be delighted with the news of so many nominations. The Academy has given us a generous welcome. It's like a big hug."
The Skin I Live In, based on the novel Tarantula by Thierry Jonquet, is also up for photography, editing, wardrobe, make-up, sound and special effects trophies, among others.
The thriller will go up against No Rest for the Wicked, The Sleeping Voice, and Blackthorn for the coveted best film prize at Spain's equivalent of the Oscars on 19 February.
Almodovar is also competing in the best director category, while his lead stars Antonio Banderas and Elena Anaya are up for the top acting prizes.
Almodovar's nominations haul comes after he rejoined Spain's Film Academy last year - he quit the institution in 2005 over repeated snubs.
His brother Agustin Almodovar, who produced The Skin I Live In, insists the filmmaker will be thrilled with the recognition, telling El Pais newspaper, "Pedro will be delighted with the news of so many nominations. The Academy has given us a generous welcome. It's like a big hug."
The Skin I Live In, based on the novel Tarantula by Thierry Jonquet, is also up for photography, editing, wardrobe, make-up, sound and special effects trophies, among others.
- 1/10/2012
- WENN
DVD/Blu-ray Release Date: March 6, 2012
Price: DVD/Blu-ray $45.99
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Foreign film The Skin I Live In made the art house theater rounds to much acclaim from critics and audiences.
Written and directed by Pedro Almodovar (Broken Embraces), the movie stars Antonio Banderas (You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger) as a plastic surgeon whose wife died in a flaming car accident. After much trial and error, Banderas’ Dr. Robert Ledgard creates a synthetic skin that could have saved his wife’s life, and he tests it on a mysterious woman whose past is closely linked to the tragic events that haunt him.
The Spanish-language film, which is based on the novel by Thierry Jonquet and written in collaboration with Agustin Almodovar (The Devil’s Backbone), also stars Elena Anaya (Point Blank) and Marisa Paredes (Life Is Beautiful).
Like Sony’s release of other smaller and foreign movies,...
Price: DVD/Blu-ray $45.99
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Foreign film The Skin I Live In made the art house theater rounds to much acclaim from critics and audiences.
Written and directed by Pedro Almodovar (Broken Embraces), the movie stars Antonio Banderas (You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger) as a plastic surgeon whose wife died in a flaming car accident. After much trial and error, Banderas’ Dr. Robert Ledgard creates a synthetic skin that could have saved his wife’s life, and he tests it on a mysterious woman whose past is closely linked to the tragic events that haunt him.
The Spanish-language film, which is based on the novel by Thierry Jonquet and written in collaboration with Agustin Almodovar (The Devil’s Backbone), also stars Elena Anaya (Point Blank) and Marisa Paredes (Life Is Beautiful).
Like Sony’s release of other smaller and foreign movies,...
- 12/12/2011
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito) Directed by: Pedro Almodovar Written by: Pedro Almodovar (screenplay), Thierry Jonquet (book) Starring: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Blanca Suarez, Jan Cornet I’m unabashedly honest about my shortcomings, and I’ll freely admit I’ve never been a huge fan of Pedro Almodóvar’s films. Go ahead and slap my wrist, I deserve it. I haven’t tried that many, but I have never been able to get fully immersed in one of his films, until now. Almodóvar slithers into a dreamy tale of horror, revenge, obsession and betrayal with the superb The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito). It’s exquisitely depraved. Antonio Banderas plays Robert, a wealthy surgeon who lives on a sprawling estate equipped with its own surgical treatment room. There’s also an observation room that houses a mysterious woman (Vera, played by...
- 11/18/2011
- by Shannon
- FilmJunk
It's a busy week for special screenings. On Saturday, Austin-shot film Mars plays the Austin Film Society Screening Room as part of the Texas Independent Film Network's touring series. On Sunday, the Paramount is screening two Chris Marker films, Sans Soleil and La Jetee, in conjunction with Arthouse/Amoa's current exhibit "The Anxiety of Photography."
Wednesday is especially crazy: Cinema 41 is showing Agnes Varda's Cleo from 5 to 7 at the Hideout. Doc Nights is screening Nostalgia for the Light at Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar. At Alamo Village, Best of the Fests brings Berndt Mader's Five Time Champion back to Austin, and Slackerwood's Don Clinchy will moderate the Q&A. And Cine Las Americas wraps up its "Literature in Mexican Cinema" series with Santa, based on Federico Gamboa's novel.
And if that's not enough, Don Hertzfeldt will be at Alamo South Lamar on Wednesday and Thursday...
Wednesday is especially crazy: Cinema 41 is showing Agnes Varda's Cleo from 5 to 7 at the Hideout. Doc Nights is screening Nostalgia for the Light at Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar. At Alamo Village, Best of the Fests brings Berndt Mader's Five Time Champion back to Austin, and Slackerwood's Don Clinchy will moderate the Q&A. And Cine Las Americas wraps up its "Literature in Mexican Cinema" series with Santa, based on Federico Gamboa's novel.
And if that's not enough, Don Hertzfeldt will be at Alamo South Lamar on Wednesday and Thursday...
- 11/11/2011
- by Jenn Brown
- Slackerwood
The Skin I Live In
Written by Pedro Almodóvar
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Spain, 2011
The hallowed caverns of cinema history are littered with the skeletal remains of mad scientists, those power-crazed maniacs whose unholy experiments are frequently an affront to god and to the more tangible realm of medical ethics. These sneering antagonists are driven by all-consuming desire to avenge a wrong, or save a loved one, or to play the immortal and be damned with the consequences to their perverted souls. From the translocation of limbs and organs in the likes of The Hands of Orlac and The Eye, from the shrieking transmutations in The Island of Dr. Moreau, from the perverted humor of The Thing With Two Heads, or the automaton prophecy of Metropolis, the cinema has reveled in the possibilities of man breaching the bounds of pathological and righteous decency, scorning the absurd moral framework of his...
Written by Pedro Almodóvar
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Spain, 2011
The hallowed caverns of cinema history are littered with the skeletal remains of mad scientists, those power-crazed maniacs whose unholy experiments are frequently an affront to god and to the more tangible realm of medical ethics. These sneering antagonists are driven by all-consuming desire to avenge a wrong, or save a loved one, or to play the immortal and be damned with the consequences to their perverted souls. From the translocation of limbs and organs in the likes of The Hands of Orlac and The Eye, from the shrieking transmutations in The Island of Dr. Moreau, from the perverted humor of The Thing With Two Heads, or the automaton prophecy of Metropolis, the cinema has reveled in the possibilities of man breaching the bounds of pathological and righteous decency, scorning the absurd moral framework of his...
- 11/10/2011
- by John
- SoundOnSight
Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar is internationally known for his darkly humorous and often perverse explorations into gender and sexuality, but even more so about relationships between women and the men who love (while still often hating) them. His latest film, The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito), is no different in its general themes, but is the most stylized and visually and emotionally impacting of all his movies. Based on the novel Tarantula by Thierry Jonquet, The Skin I Live In effectively blends so many genres -- thriller, erotica, drama, horror and sci-fi -- that it will hopefully appeal to a wide audience.
Secured in his operating lab at his isolated home El Cigarral, plastic surgeon Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas) has made a breakthrough in his research to improve methods of repairing disfigurement of burn victims. Through transgenesis -- the process of introducing an exogenous gene, from a...
Secured in his operating lab at his isolated home El Cigarral, plastic surgeon Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas) has made a breakthrough in his research to improve methods of repairing disfigurement of burn victims. Through transgenesis -- the process of introducing an exogenous gene, from a...
- 11/10/2011
- by Debbie Cerda
- Slackerwood
Pedro Almodovar's "The Skin I Live In" is creepy, stylish and provocative, a horror story and a psychological thriller and a twisted examination of identity, sexuality, revenge and the abuse of power. The prolific Spanish director, who is celebrating the 25th year of his production company El Deseo and serving as the guest artistic director of this year's AFI Fest, came to TheWrap Screening Series on Tuesday night to present his film, which is loosely based on the novel "Mygale" ("Tarantula") by Thierry Jonquet. The film features Antonio Banderas as a brilliant...
- 11/9/2011
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Summary: Sensual and shocking, but only skin-deep.
Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In had its U.S. premiere a week ago at the New York Film Festival before opening for a limited run, and you should probably see it. I mean, why not? As far as auteurs go, the guy is an indelible force of originality. Like the very best filmmakers, his world view is constantly shifting, but instantly recognizable. His latest picture, a loose adaptation of Thierry Jonquet's novel Tarantula, reunites him with Antonio Banderas after 21 long years. So, if your idea of a good time is watching Puss in Boots conduct some startlingly immoral medical experiments, brother, you're in luck.
I've given it a lot of thought, and the best way to describe Skin is "Frankenstein meets Pygmalion." Everything you need to know about the film is in those three words, but I'll delve further. When we...
Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In had its U.S. premiere a week ago at the New York Film Festival before opening for a limited run, and you should probably see it. I mean, why not? As far as auteurs go, the guy is an indelible force of originality. Like the very best filmmakers, his world view is constantly shifting, but instantly recognizable. His latest picture, a loose adaptation of Thierry Jonquet's novel Tarantula, reunites him with Antonio Banderas after 21 long years. So, if your idea of a good time is watching Puss in Boots conduct some startlingly immoral medical experiments, brother, you're in luck.
I've given it a lot of thought, and the best way to describe Skin is "Frankenstein meets Pygmalion." Everything you need to know about the film is in those three words, but I'll delve further. When we...
- 10/18/2011
- by Benny Gammerman
- Filmology
"The Skin I Live In is Almodóvar's most formally complex, bravura film since All About My Mother (1999)," argues Amy Taubin in Artforum. "It effortlessly synthesizes the mad-scientist horror flick; a contemporary resetting of a nineteenth-century grand opera narrative (motored by the desire for revenge and filled with dark family secrets); and the most perverse strain of the Hollywood 'Woman's Picture,' where the heroines are wrongly imprisoned in insane asylums or hospitals and treated as sadistically as lab rats. That it is a disturbing film goes without saying, but its affect is strikingly narcotic throughout, its moments of anguish tempered by the Carnivalesque…. The Skin I Live In is an exhilarating treatise on identity in which the self transcends the fragile, sullied flesh, and, as always in Almodóvar, the law of desire trumps sexual difference."
Karina Longworth in the Voice: "A postmodern homage to Hitchcock that raises the Master of...
Karina Longworth in the Voice: "A postmodern homage to Hitchcock that raises the Master of...
- 10/15/2011
- MUBI
Sony Pictures/Everett
Pedro Almodovar’s new film, “The Skin I Live In,” stars Antonio Banderas as Dr. Robert Ledgard, a plastic surgeon who is on a mission to create an artificial skin and keeping a beautiful woman captive in a sealed chamber.
The cinematographer on the 117-minute film is Almodovar’s longtime collaborator, Jose Luis Alcaine. The film also stars Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet, Roberto Alamo, Elena Anaya and Blanca Suarez.
Read some reviews here.
“This is clearly not Mr.
Pedro Almodovar’s new film, “The Skin I Live In,” stars Antonio Banderas as Dr. Robert Ledgard, a plastic surgeon who is on a mission to create an artificial skin and keeping a beautiful woman captive in a sealed chamber.
The cinematographer on the 117-minute film is Almodovar’s longtime collaborator, Jose Luis Alcaine. The film also stars Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet, Roberto Alamo, Elena Anaya and Blanca Suarez.
Read some reviews here.
“This is clearly not Mr.
- 10/14/2011
- by WSJ Staff
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Some of Spain's greatest contributions to the world include Picasso, the modern acoustic guitar, sangria, and filmmaker, Pedro Almodóvar. All make life richer, all are world renowned, and all are delightfully refreshing — especially the sangria.
Add to the list of Awesome Things from Spain: the enchanting actress Elena Anaya (last seen checking out of her Room in Rome), who stars with Antonio Banderas in Almodóvar's newest film, The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito).
Anaya plays Vera, a beautiful, strange young woman being held prisoner in an upscale villa owned by Dr. Robert Ledgard (Banderas). The doctor is a prominent plastic surgeon who's using her as a human guinea pig for the secret experiments he's carrying out in a customized operating theater in his basement.
The isolated villa provides the privacy Ledgard needs to work on his obsession: a supple, flawless, artificial skin impervious to injury, especially burns.
Add to the list of Awesome Things from Spain: the enchanting actress Elena Anaya (last seen checking out of her Room in Rome), who stars with Antonio Banderas in Almodóvar's newest film, The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito).
Anaya plays Vera, a beautiful, strange young woman being held prisoner in an upscale villa owned by Dr. Robert Ledgard (Banderas). The doctor is a prominent plastic surgeon who's using her as a human guinea pig for the secret experiments he's carrying out in a customized operating theater in his basement.
The isolated villa provides the privacy Ledgard needs to work on his obsession: a supple, flawless, artificial skin impervious to injury, especially burns.
- 10/14/2011
- by Dara Nai
- AfterEllen.com
Review of The Skin I Live In. The Skin I Live In reunites Antonio Banderas and Pedro Almodóvar in thrilling fashion. Movie violence, at least in the hands of Spanish master Pedro Almodóvar, can be a beautiful thing. In fact, every image, camera angle and set detail throughout Almodóvar's latest movie The Skin I Live In is stylish, elegant and stunning to behold. Artful moviemaking is what fans expect from Almodóvar after thirty-one years of directing, going to back to his first feature film Pepi, Luci, Bom. What's fresh with The Skin I Live In, a loose adaptation of the 2003 novela Tarantula (Mygale) by Thierry Jonquet, is watching Almodóvar try his hand at gothic horror while remaining true to his tradition of melodrama.
- 10/14/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Review of The Skin I Live In. The Skin I Live In reunites Antonio Banderas and Pedro Almodóvar in thrilling fashion. Movie violence, at least in the hands of Spanish master Pedro Almodóvar, can be a beautiful thing. In fact, every image, camera angle and set detail throughout Almodóvar's latest movie The Skin I Live In is stylish, elegant and stunning to behold. Artful moviemaking is what fans expect from Almodóvar after thirty-one years of directing, going to back to his first feature film Pepi, Luci, Bom. What's fresh with The Skin I Live In, a loose adaptation of the 2003 novela Tarantula (Mygale) by Thierry Jonquet, is watching Almodóvar try his hand at gothic horror while remaining true to his tradition of melodrama.
- 10/14/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The Skin I Live In
Written by Pedro Almodóvar
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Spain, 2011
The hallowed caverns of cinema history are littered with the skeletal remains of mad scientists, those power-crazed maniacs whose unholy experiments are frequently an affront to god and to the more tangible realm of medical ethics. These sneering antagonists are driven by all-consuming desire to avenge a wrong, or save a loved one, or to play the immortal and be damned with the consequences to their perverted souls. From the translocation of limbs and organs in the likes of The Hands of Orlac and The Eye, from the shrieking transmutations in The Island of Dr. Moreau, from the perverted humor of The Thing With Two Heads, or the automaton prophecy of Metropolis, the cinema has reveled in the possibilities of man breaching the bounds of pathological and righteous decency, scorning the absurd moral framework of his...
Written by Pedro Almodóvar
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Spain, 2011
The hallowed caverns of cinema history are littered with the skeletal remains of mad scientists, those power-crazed maniacs whose unholy experiments are frequently an affront to god and to the more tangible realm of medical ethics. These sneering antagonists are driven by all-consuming desire to avenge a wrong, or save a loved one, or to play the immortal and be damned with the consequences to their perverted souls. From the translocation of limbs and organs in the likes of The Hands of Orlac and The Eye, from the shrieking transmutations in The Island of Dr. Moreau, from the perverted humor of The Thing With Two Heads, or the automaton prophecy of Metropolis, the cinema has reveled in the possibilities of man breaching the bounds of pathological and righteous decency, scorning the absurd moral framework of his...
- 10/14/2011
- by John
- SoundOnSight
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Written by: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet
This film slices right to the brain.
I don’t know a single person who walked out of the screening for Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In who wasn’t at least fascinated. Many were thoroughly disturbed. I was delighted. Almodóvar assembled the kind of story I never thought would dare to see the mainstream screen, with a technical mastery that’s as good as any film that has.
My joy over The Skin I Live In has many roots. One is the style of horror film it is. Another is how bizarre and outrageously brave it is, but I’ll touch on that later. For all you eager genre film fans out there, I want to assure you right off the mark that the winding plot and psychological shocks are a deliciously unsettling experience.
Written by: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet
This film slices right to the brain.
I don’t know a single person who walked out of the screening for Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In who wasn’t at least fascinated. Many were thoroughly disturbed. I was delighted. Almodóvar assembled the kind of story I never thought would dare to see the mainstream screen, with a technical mastery that’s as good as any film that has.
My joy over The Skin I Live In has many roots. One is the style of horror film it is. Another is how bizarre and outrageously brave it is, but I’ll touch on that later. For all you eager genre film fans out there, I want to assure you right off the mark that the winding plot and psychological shocks are a deliciously unsettling experience.
- 10/14/2011
- by M C Funk
- Planet Fury
You may have noticed a veil of intrigue and mystery has persistently clung to Pedro Almodóvar’s latest effort The Skin I Live In. The drama’s promotional poster is arresting and strange, but gives little away; and its amorphous trailer teases striking visuals, promises appearances from such recurring Almodóvar collaborators as Antonio Banderas and Marisa Paredes, but dedicatedly avoids displaying its plot. Even the critics I spoke to beforehand were eerily vague on what seemed to be the simplest of details, namely: What’s it about? So as I eagerly settled into my seat for one of my most anticipated Nyff screenings, I was curious to see where Almodóvar’s latest venture would take me. And as a large part of the film’s impact on me was based on my lack of information beforehand, I am going urge you to see this remarkable film while revealing as little...
- 10/13/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
As the fall continues, the movies must slowly bet getting better. And coincidentally, in New York and Los Angeles at least, moviegoers will get the chance to sample the latest film from Pedro Almodovar, "The Skin I Live In," tomorrow. And while I don't think the film has any real chances for major Oscar nominations (and neither did the Spanish film committee who passed it over for foreign language film consideration), it's a twisted and out-there thriller that will shock many ticket buyers looking for something different at the multiplex. A loose adaptation of Thierry Jonquet's novel of the same name,...
- 10/13/2011
- Hitfix
Pedro Almodóvar's films are often about concerns of the flesh, live or otherwise, but his latest, "The Skin I Live In," takes those dermatological concerns to a whole new level. It is about a doctor named Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas), who has created a synthetic skin that is far more resilient to damage than normal human tissue. Early in the film he gives an academic presentation on the wonders of skin replacement surgery and how he loves to help people who've been horribly scarred reclaim their identities. He talks about the way enriching the lives of others enriches his own life. Isn't that nice? Sure, but this is an Almodóvar film, so the altruistic doctor also has a woman imprisoned in his estate, and he's using her as a guinea pig for his skin experiments.
That would be Vera, played by the luminous Elena Anaya (see above, as if...
That would be Vera, played by the luminous Elena Anaya (see above, as if...
- 10/13/2011
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
The Skin I Live In is directed by Pedro Almodóvar, and stars Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes and Jan Cornet. Sony Classic Pictures will release the Spanish language thriller The Skin I Live In to theaters in both Los Angeles and New York on October 14, 2011. According to the official site the film will also be shown in cities across the country soon. The Skin I Live In is based on the book entitled Mygale by Thierry Jonquet.
- 10/11/2011
- Best-Horror-Movies.com
With The Skin I Live In, based on the novel Mygale by Thierry Jonquet, Pedro Almodóvar continues his career-long examination of the feminine mystique from the outside inward. In this case, that’s a good thing. The skin in question has many meanings here beyond the largest organ of the human body, though that’s certainly on ample display. In this engaging thriller, skin can refer to anything from protection, to pretension, to the last dangling thread of identity in a world that makes no sense....
- 10/10/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
Pedro Almodóvar's latest, The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito) is not for the squeamish. Adapted from Thierry Jonquet's novel, Tarantula, Almodóvar steps delicately back and forth between tones of medical melodrama and twisted thriller - the cumulative effect ultimately laying somewhere between the chill of Cronenberg's Dead Ringers and the absurd mayhem of de la Iglesia's The Last Circus (Balada triste de trompeta). Elements of soap opera and indeed a touch of camp do little to lessen the discomfort of increasingly disturbing revelations - and if there is anything at which The Skin I Live In excels, it is its meticulously ordered construction. Given the tone of the film, Antonio Banderas, starring for Almodóvar for the first time since 1990's Átame (Tie Me...
- 10/2/2011
- Screen Anarchy
New clips from Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Blanca Suárez, Jan Cornet, Marisa Paredes, Bárbara Lennie, Roberto Álamo, Fernando Cayo and Eduard Fernández, star in the Sony Pictures Classics' drama helmed and scripted by Almodóvar, based on the novel by Thierry Jonquet. The Skin I Live In can be seen at the Toronto Film Festival on September 11th and opens in limited U.S. theaters on October 14th. Pic was nominated for the Cannes Film Festival's Palm d'Or prize and we have 4 clips in standard and high definition up for your viewing pleasure. Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault.
- 9/9/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
New clips from Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Blanca Suárez, Jan Cornet, Marisa Paredes, Bárbara Lennie, Roberto Álamo, Fernando Cayo and Eduard Fernández, star in the Sony Pictures Classics' drama helmed and scripted by Almodóvar, based on the novel by Thierry Jonquet. The Skin I Live In can be seen at the Toronto Film Festival on September 11th and opens in limited U.S. theaters on October 14th. Pic was nominated for the Cannes Film Festival's Palm d'Or prize and we have 4 clips in standard and high definition up for your viewing pleasure. Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault.
- 9/9/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The 2011 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival kicks off tomorrow and will run until September 18th. Now you’re going to hear a lot about the celebrities in town, the parties going down and the massive queues, but at the end of the day Tiff is about the movies. And with over 330 movies playing this year, there’s definitely no shortage of films to choose from.
After much deliberation and careful calculation we’ve made our picks. Between the five of us covering the fest, we’re likely going to see close to 125 of the films playing Tiff this year. Yeah, it’s a lot of movies. Certainly more than can be listed here. So we’ve asked our writers to narrow it down to their top three picks.
You can find the full film line-up here, but here is what Shelagh Rowan-Legg, Zack Kotzer and Will Perkins think...
After much deliberation and careful calculation we’ve made our picks. Between the five of us covering the fest, we’re likely going to see close to 125 of the films playing Tiff this year. Yeah, it’s a lot of movies. Certainly more than can be listed here. So we’ve asked our writers to narrow it down to their top three picks.
You can find the full film line-up here, but here is what Shelagh Rowan-Legg, Zack Kotzer and Will Perkins think...
- 9/8/2011
- by Dork Shelf
- DorkShelf.com
Title: The Skin I Live In Directed By: Pedro Almodovar Written By: Pedro Almodovar, with collaboration of Agustin Almodovar, based on Thierry Jonquet’s novel “Mygale” Cast: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Blanca Suárez, Marisa Paredes, Fernando Cayo, Jan Corner, Bárbara Lennie Screened at: Sony, NYC, 8/30/11 Opens: October 14, 2011 Think of George Franju’s 1960 film “Eyes Without a Face” but with all the cinematic marvels that have come our way during the past half century, adding marvelously to this new tale of a mad scientist who has discovered a way to change not only the face but a patient’s entire body. Franju’s film plus all the stories we’ve heard about...
- 8/31/2011
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
The first trailer we saw of Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In (La Piel que Habito) was brief and creepy as hell. A new trailer has emerged via Yahoo that is decidely less creepy and more… odd? I really want this to be good, but this particular trailer seems strangely amateurish, especially with the captioning. Even the new poster looks less horror, more indie science fiction. Which is probably okay.
I still have hope that we’ll be seeing a strong showing from Almodóvar, but the jury is out, in my opinion. What do you think? Looking forward to it?
Antonio Banderas stars in the film. It is based on Thierry Jonquet’s 2005 novel Mygale/Tarantula and features a mad scientist/plastic surgeon (Banderas) conducting experiments on a female subject (Elena Anaya) to develop a skin impermeable to assault.
The Skin I Live In hits theaters August 26.
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I still have hope that we’ll be seeing a strong showing from Almodóvar, but the jury is out, in my opinion. What do you think? Looking forward to it?
Antonio Banderas stars in the film. It is based on Thierry Jonquet’s 2005 novel Mygale/Tarantula and features a mad scientist/plastic surgeon (Banderas) conducting experiments on a female subject (Elena Anaya) to develop a skin impermeable to assault.
The Skin I Live In hits theaters August 26.
Here...
- 8/31/2011
- by Catherine
- Movie Gnome
"If there's one thing on which we can constantly rely from Pedro Almodóvar, it's sumptuous home furnishings," suggests the Telegraph's Tim Robey. "Other things would include narrative switchbacks, tragic mothers, surprise sex and wigs. The Skin I Live In, Almodóvar's clinically bizarre new thriller, doesn't disappoint on any of these counts, but it's also the first of his films that you could define as a horror movie, in a smirking sort of way. It's constructed to induce kinky shudders, delivering them with the ghoulish technical flair of a purring master. He's pleased with his new game — perhaps a little too pleased…. I’ve heard the movie described as barking, but it’s like a very sophisticated wind-up toy, barking on command."
"The last time [Antonio] Banderas worked with Almodóvar was for Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! in 1990," notes Dave Calhoun, who also interviews the director for Time Out London. "21 years later,...
"The last time [Antonio] Banderas worked with Almodóvar was for Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! in 1990," notes Dave Calhoun, who also interviews the director for Time Out London. "21 years later,...
- 8/30/2011
- MUBI
Antonio Banderas has done a lot of kids movies in the past few years. Between playing Puss in Boots in the Shrek franchise and doing the "dad thing" in Robert Rodriguez's first Spy Kids movies, his audience for the last decade has primarily consisted of people under the age of 13. But people familiar with Banderas' work before 2001 know that hasn't always been the case. Watching the first theatrical trailer for Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In, it appears that not only is the Spanish actor's next film not for children, but anyone below the age of 13 shouldn't even be in the same building where its being shown. Check it out below or in HD over on Yahoo! In the film, based on the novel by Thierry Jonquet, Banderas plays Dr. Robert Ledgard, a brilliant plastic surgeon who has discovered how to create a durable synthetic skin. His...
- 8/30/2011
- cinemablend.com
Over the summer a peculiar teaser trailer and an equally strange but brilliant second trailer for Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In (or La piel que habito in Spanish) starring Antonio Banderas in a role that seems unlike anything he's done before. The trailer is nearly dialogue-free with some entrancing music accompanying the visuals which don't hint much at the narrative itself. Still it's chilling and really makes me think this will be a special kind of thriller, and something completely new for Almodovar as a director. Alex loved the film at Cannes, but you can judge for yourself by checking out the trailer below. Here's the new trailer for The Skin I Live In courtesy of Yahoo! Movies: Based on Thierry Jonquet's Mygale, this revenge tale tells the story of a plastic surgeon, played by Antonio Banderas (reuniting after 20 years with Pedro Almodóvar after working on Tie Me Up!
- 8/29/2011
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Pedro Almodóvar's film about a ruthless plastic surgeon is a moving exploration of the nature of human identity
Shortly to celebrate his 62nd birthday, Pedro Almodóvar is at his daring, provocative and allusive best with the scintillating The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito). A combination of dark thriller, gothic horror story and poetic myth, it visits most of the preoccupations of his work over the past 30-odd years from maternal devotion through sexual identity to obsessional activity.
It's based on a 120-page French novel, Mygale, by the late Thierry Jonquet (published in Britain as Tarantula), in which an eminent French plastic surgeon has a practice at a public hospital in Paris, a private clinic in Boulogne, a secret operating theatre in the basement of his suburban mansion, a beautiful, submissive partner called Eve whom he keeps under lock and key, and a teenage daughter in an asylum.
Shortly to celebrate his 62nd birthday, Pedro Almodóvar is at his daring, provocative and allusive best with the scintillating The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito). A combination of dark thriller, gothic horror story and poetic myth, it visits most of the preoccupations of his work over the past 30-odd years from maternal devotion through sexual identity to obsessional activity.
It's based on a 120-page French novel, Mygale, by the late Thierry Jonquet (published in Britain as Tarantula), in which an eminent French plastic surgeon has a practice at a public hospital in Paris, a private clinic in Boulogne, a secret operating theatre in the basement of his suburban mansion, a beautiful, submissive partner called Eve whom he keeps under lock and key, and a teenage daughter in an asylum.
- 8/27/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
HeyUGuys brings you the latest in World Cinema film trailers in association with Film Dates UK.
Each week we’ll be showcasing some of most anticipated foreign releases as well as highlighting a few hidden gems which may have fallen off your radar. It’s no surprise that Hollywood has turned to World Cinema for inspiration in recent years with the number of remakes getting more and more popular.
Whilst it remains to be seen how many of these remakes go on to succeed or stay true to their original story counterparts, we decided it was high-time we turned the spotlight onto the next wave of foreign films to grace our screens.
This week we have 4 new trailers for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!
Little Soldier (Lille soldat) UK Cinema Release Date: Wednesday 24th August 2011
Synopsis: Lotte is a soldier recently back from war. She drinks, and her apartment is a mess.
Each week we’ll be showcasing some of most anticipated foreign releases as well as highlighting a few hidden gems which may have fallen off your radar. It’s no surprise that Hollywood has turned to World Cinema for inspiration in recent years with the number of remakes getting more and more popular.
Whilst it remains to be seen how many of these remakes go on to succeed or stay true to their original story counterparts, we decided it was high-time we turned the spotlight onto the next wave of foreign films to grace our screens.
This week we have 4 new trailers for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!
Little Soldier (Lille soldat) UK Cinema Release Date: Wednesday 24th August 2011
Synopsis: Lotte is a soldier recently back from war. She drinks, and her apartment is a mess.
- 8/26/2011
- by Andy Petrou
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
With this bizarre, elegant tale of a surgeon replacing his lover's skin, Pedro Almodóvar cooks up an exotic brew that no one else could ever make
Sexuality and the prison house of the self are the themes of Pedro Almodóvar's fantastically twisted new film, a luxury pulp fiction that breathes the atmosphere of the sick-room. Antonio Banderas stars as Ledgard, a wealthy and brilliant plastic surgeon who in his palatial home, tastefully furnished and equipped with its own private operating theatre, is secretly experimenting on the beautiful and submissive young Vera (Elena Anaya), whose entire skin covering he is replacing with an eerily smooth artificial substance, transgenically derived from pig hide. Is the prisoner his long-lost beloved wife, widely thought to have died of burns in a recent car crash? Or someone else entirely, who he is surgically refashioning to resemble her? Either way, captor and captive appear to be in love.
Sexuality and the prison house of the self are the themes of Pedro Almodóvar's fantastically twisted new film, a luxury pulp fiction that breathes the atmosphere of the sick-room. Antonio Banderas stars as Ledgard, a wealthy and brilliant plastic surgeon who in his palatial home, tastefully furnished and equipped with its own private operating theatre, is secretly experimenting on the beautiful and submissive young Vera (Elena Anaya), whose entire skin covering he is replacing with an eerily smooth artificial substance, transgenically derived from pig hide. Is the prisoner his long-lost beloved wife, widely thought to have died of burns in a recent car crash? Or someone else entirely, who he is surgically refashioning to resemble her? Either way, captor and captive appear to be in love.
- 8/25/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
With this Fall film season, comes the Fall film festival season, and this is looking like one hell of a circuit to be a part of. With films from the likes of Whit Stillman, David Cronenberg and even Chantal Akerman making their debut this year, film festivals across the world, including the likes of Toronto and Venice, will be the talk of the film world.
However, New York won’t be out done. The Nyff has just announced two new Galas that will be a part of their lineup this year, and they are two films to really keep an eye on.
First, the festival will host Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In, a film unlike any the director has ever made. I had the chance to see the Antonio Banderas-starring flick at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, and it’s an absolute winner. It’s...
However, New York won’t be out done. The Nyff has just announced two new Galas that will be a part of their lineup this year, and they are two films to really keep an eye on.
First, the festival will host Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In, a film unlike any the director has ever made. I had the chance to see the Antonio Banderas-starring flick at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, and it’s an absolute winner. It’s...
- 8/17/2011
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
This year’s New York Film Festival is shaping up to be a strong one at that. Recently My Week with Marilyn, directed by Simon Curtis, has announced it’s world premier at the festival on October 9th as the Centerpiece at Alice Tully Hall. Added to the list are the highly anticipated films, A Dangerous Method by acclaimed director David Cronenberg and The Skin I Live In by Pedro Almodóvar. The 49th New York Film Festival is from September 30th to October 16th, and will open with the North American premiere of Carnage, Roman Polanski’s adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s Tony Award winning play, God of Carnage. Check out the festival synopsis, images and trailers below and get pumped up for good film watching in New York this year!
Carnage by Roman Polanski
Synopsis:
“Polanski’s new film, set amidst a tumultuous encounter inside a Brooklyn apartment, stars Jodie Foster,...
Carnage by Roman Polanski
Synopsis:
“Polanski’s new film, set amidst a tumultuous encounter inside a Brooklyn apartment, stars Jodie Foster,...
- 8/16/2011
- by Christopher Clemente
- SoundOnSight
Press Release:
New York, NY, August 15, 2011 – The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced the first-time addition of two Galas to join the Opening, Centerpiece and Closing Night Galas for the upcoming 49th New York Film Festival (September 30 . October 16) with David Cronenberg.s A Dangerous Method set to screen on Wednesday, October 5 and Pedro Almodovar.s The Skin I Live In on Wednesday, October 12.
“We.re delighted to be welcoming David Cronenberg to the festival for the first time and to be welcoming back one of the Nyff.s closest friends, Pedro Almodovar,. says Richard Peña, Selection Committee Chair & Program Director, The Film Society of Lincoln Center. .It.s a special pleasure to introduce our audiences to exciting new work by two of contemporary cinema.s most challenging artists..
Scheduled at Alice Tully Hall on Wednesday, October 5 will be David Cronenberg.s A Dangerous Method. Adapted by Christopher Hampton from his play The Talking Cure,...
New York, NY, August 15, 2011 – The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced the first-time addition of two Galas to join the Opening, Centerpiece and Closing Night Galas for the upcoming 49th New York Film Festival (September 30 . October 16) with David Cronenberg.s A Dangerous Method set to screen on Wednesday, October 5 and Pedro Almodovar.s The Skin I Live In on Wednesday, October 12.
“We.re delighted to be welcoming David Cronenberg to the festival for the first time and to be welcoming back one of the Nyff.s closest friends, Pedro Almodovar,. says Richard Peña, Selection Committee Chair & Program Director, The Film Society of Lincoln Center. .It.s a special pleasure to introduce our audiences to exciting new work by two of contemporary cinema.s most challenging artists..
Scheduled at Alice Tully Hall on Wednesday, October 5 will be David Cronenberg.s A Dangerous Method. Adapted by Christopher Hampton from his play The Talking Cure,...
- 8/15/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
We are almost over the summer slump and the fall film festival circuit is gearing up. One of the biggest is the New York Film Festival, and they’ve just announced two new galas. They will welcome David Cronenberg for the first time with his Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud pic A Dangerous Method, starring Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley and Vincent Cassel. Also announced is Pedro Almodovar‘s The Skin I Live In starring Antonio Banderas, which we quite liked at Cannes.
At the same time, Sony Pictures Classics have announced new release dates for two of their major Oscar contenders, both playing at the Nyff. A Dangerous Method will open on November 23rd, 2011 next to limited releases of The Artist and The Descendants. Opening wide will be Arthur Christmas, Hugo, The Muppets and Piranha 3Dd.
They’ve also announced the Us release date for the Nyff opening night film,...
At the same time, Sony Pictures Classics have announced new release dates for two of their major Oscar contenders, both playing at the Nyff. A Dangerous Method will open on November 23rd, 2011 next to limited releases of The Artist and The Descendants. Opening wide will be Arthur Christmas, Hugo, The Muppets and Piranha 3Dd.
They’ve also announced the Us release date for the Nyff opening night film,...
- 8/15/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Elena Anaya has said that her "blood ran cold" when Pedro Almodóvar asked her to play the lead female role in The Skin I Live In. The actress had played a walk-on role for the director in 2002's Talk to Her before he called her about his adaptation of Thierry Jonquet's Tarantula. Anaya said: "My entire blood stopped for a few seconds. I couldn't believe it. Everything was part of a dream and I am still inside the dream now. "As soon as Pedro tells you, 'It's you!', all these scary thoughts come in to your head. You start to feel this incredible responsibility. (more)...
- 8/15/2011
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
The Skin I Live In star on the 'terrifying responsibility' of working with Spain's great director, Pedro Almodóvar
Ten years ago, the Spanish film-maker Pedro Almodóvar called Elena Anaya and asked to meet. She went to Madrid and immediately the director started to apologise profusely; he had a tiny role in his new project, he explained, but he couldn't imagine anyone else playing it. The young actor told him to stop: "I said to him I would be a vase or a lampshade if he wanted – facing a wall or whatever," she remembers now. The film was Talk to Her and Almodóvar was not exaggerating; Anaya's part is so small that when her father went to the premiere, he didn't even notice she was in it.
A decade on, Almodóvar called again. The intervening years had been good to both of them: Almodóvar had evolved his lurid, exuberant early films...
Ten years ago, the Spanish film-maker Pedro Almodóvar called Elena Anaya and asked to meet. She went to Madrid and immediately the director started to apologise profusely; he had a tiny role in his new project, he explained, but he couldn't imagine anyone else playing it. The young actor told him to stop: "I said to him I would be a vase or a lampshade if he wanted – facing a wall or whatever," she remembers now. The film was Talk to Her and Almodóvar was not exaggerating; Anaya's part is so small that when her father went to the premiere, he didn't even notice she was in it.
A decade on, Almodóvar called again. The intervening years had been good to both of them: Almodóvar had evolved his lurid, exuberant early films...
- 8/13/2011
- by Tim Lewis
- The Guardian - Film News
Pedro Almodóvar made him a star. But then Hollywood beckoned and actor abandoned mentor. Twenty years on, they're back together – and boy does it feel good...
Three decades ago, an impoverished young actor named Antonio Banderas was sitting with friends outside Madrid's National theatre when a curious figure happened by. The new arrival sported a backcombed goth bouffant and brandished a bright red briefcase that could only contain documents of national importance. He ordered a drink, cracked some jokes then turned abruptly towards Banderas. "You have a very romantic face," he said. "You should do movies. Bye-bye!" And with that he was off, swinging his briefcase through the crowds on the Calle del Principe.
Nonplussed, Banderas turned to his friends. "Oh, that's Pedro Almodóvar," they told him. "He made a movie once. But he won't make any more."
Banderas and Almodóvar went on to make five films together. These were wild,...
Three decades ago, an impoverished young actor named Antonio Banderas was sitting with friends outside Madrid's National theatre when a curious figure happened by. The new arrival sported a backcombed goth bouffant and brandished a bright red briefcase that could only contain documents of national importance. He ordered a drink, cracked some jokes then turned abruptly towards Banderas. "You have a very romantic face," he said. "You should do movies. Bye-bye!" And with that he was off, swinging his briefcase through the crowds on the Calle del Principe.
Nonplussed, Banderas turned to his friends. "Oh, that's Pedro Almodóvar," they told him. "He made a movie once. But he won't make any more."
Banderas and Almodóvar went on to make five films together. These were wild,...
- 7/29/2011
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
Filed under: Trailers and Clips, Movie News
Pedro Almodóvar's films have always been a little on the edge -- some more so than others (witness 'Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!) -- and his latest, 'The Skin I Live In,' looks to be a boundary pusher for the Spanish director.
Almodóvar reunites with Antonio Banderas in an adaptation of author Thierry Jonquet's dark 1995 novel 'Mygale,' in which an unhinged plastic surgeon -- a kind of modern day Dr. Frankenstein -- develops a synthetic skin using a captive woman as his guinea pig. There's plenty of subplots, too, such as revenge exacted for the rape of the doctor's daughter.
The film premiered at this years Festival de Cannes -- to mixed reviews -- and it will make its North American debut at the Toronto International Film Festival before arriving in art houses Oct. 14.
This trailer -- in Spanish only,...
Pedro Almodóvar's films have always been a little on the edge -- some more so than others (witness 'Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!) -- and his latest, 'The Skin I Live In,' looks to be a boundary pusher for the Spanish director.
Almodóvar reunites with Antonio Banderas in an adaptation of author Thierry Jonquet's dark 1995 novel 'Mygale,' in which an unhinged plastic surgeon -- a kind of modern day Dr. Frankenstein -- develops a synthetic skin using a captive woman as his guinea pig. There's plenty of subplots, too, such as revenge exacted for the rape of the doctor's daughter.
The film premiered at this years Festival de Cannes -- to mixed reviews -- and it will make its North American debut at the Toronto International Film Festival before arriving in art houses Oct. 14.
This trailer -- in Spanish only,...
- 7/27/2011
- by Harley W. Lond
- Moviefone
Here is a shocking full trailer for Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In.The film stars Antonio Banderas and is loosely based on Thierry Jonquet's 1995 novel "Mygale". This is an eerie film and for some reason reminds me of David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers.
Check out the trailer below:
Synopsis:
Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard (Antonia Banderas), an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault. In addition to years of study and experimentation, Robert needed a further three things: no scruples, an accomplice and a human guinea pig. Scruples were never a problem. Marilia, the woman who looked after him from the day he was born, is his most faithful accomplice.
Check out the trailer below:
Synopsis:
Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard (Antonia Banderas), an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault. In addition to years of study and experimentation, Robert needed a further three things: no scruples, an accomplice and a human guinea pig. Scruples were never a problem. Marilia, the woman who looked after him from the day he was born, is his most faithful accomplice.
- 7/26/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
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