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Plot: A woman grows increasingly fascinated with her body after suffering a disfiguring accident.
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MCT:June 9, 2008A story about a woman tearing, eating, and slowly self mutilating herself. Literally.
In My Skin is a bizarre, bloody grotesque, and disturbing little film. Not a movie for everyone, especially for those with a weak stomach, but for those who are looking for something completely different, in a strangely deranged unique way, this is definitely the movie for you.
In My Skin very much reminds me of some kind of David Cronenberg film. Strange, graphic and bloody, but yet very compelling at the same time. Gore aside, this movie also has some great performances, and the art direction is top notch. It's an artsy film where everything here moves at an extremely slow pace, but nevertheless, it all still seems so strangely beautiful. There's some strange message here hidden behind all the gruesome imagery, one that needs to be examined by viewers, where we can share our opinions and try to understand the actual point. Would someone, as the female character in this movie, really do the kind of things that she did? I really don't know. But out of all the crazy things that people do in this world, I wouldn't really find it hard to believe that someone, somewhere, would be doing something like this.
Plot:
"Attending a party, Esther decides to catch a breath of fresh air in the garden and accidentally cuts herself severely. Only later does she realize her injury and when telling this to her doctor, he asks her, "Does this leg belong to you?"
While his question notes upon the irony of the situation, it actually is exactly what goes on in Esther's mind, as her body and mind are two. Hardly has her wound healed, before she cuts it open again, both in order to feel the pain, but also to watch how her flesh reacts. Slowly she becomes obsessed about her flesh, her blood and mutilating herself, going thru phases of self-vampirism and self-cannibalism, to a point, where she begins to peal her skin off, for later to take it out and feel it. Equally slowly, she becomes detached from the world around her, giving up friends and her job, retracting herself into a world, where she can be alone with her pealed skin.
The self-mutilation of Esther begins as any other act of self-mutilation, due to stress and low self esteem. She isn't as attractive as her girlfriend, nor as successful at work. During the early stages of the film, while her girlfriend is writing a report for the ministry unsupervised, she has to rewrite her report, as her boss found it flawed. But soon it becomes obvious, that she has become addicted to it. During a business dinner, the image of her boss pealing a grape excites her to such a degree, that she first rips her stocking, then, as she watches her arm being detached from her body, has to go away for a moment, to satisfy her urge by cutting herself over and over. Its not lust, but addiction, and within days, her addiction has reached a level, where she hardly can get home, before she maniacally indulges in acts of self-vampirism."
This movie also focuses a lot on slow driven character study. At first it gets us weirdly acquainted with the female lead, just enough as to where her pain later becomes more believable to us, and as the film goes on it only becomes even more shocking. I recommend this movie only for those of you who are really into extreme cinema.
Other Reviews:
"As unrelenting an exploration of isolation and dissociation as Roman Polanski's Repulsion."
- The New York Times
"A bizarre exercise in perversion that will well test even the most jaded art house audiences' appetite for the offbeat."
- The Hollywood Reporter
"Fiercely uncompromising psychodrama infused with a keen intelligence and a sinister primordiality."
- Chicago Reader
"In My Skin takes that pain/pleasure principle and magnifies it until you're either dumbstruck or running screaming from the theater."
- Boston Globe
"A truly trangressive film as unsettling as it is psychologically acute."
- TV Guide
"An experience you won't easily shake."
- Entertainment Weekly
"Spectacularly grotesque and literally nauseating, even for this usually intrepid moviegoer, In My Skin is among the more disturbing films in this blood-drenched cinematic season."
- Los Angeles Times
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MCT:May 17, 2008
Is not that is good or bad, is just so creepy that you just keep watching it .... thinking :What the f****k?
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MCT:May 13, 2008
Completely FUBAR but deservin of academic study. Knew this woman was mad when I first saw her in Ozon's Regarde la Mer.
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MCT:March 26, 2008Think it , as a soul just finding she into a physic body, so at that point she(the soul) wan to make the experience of the skin, body...
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MCT:March 8, 2008This movie was a disgusting, self-absorbed exploration of voyeuristic shock value. The one star I gave it is for the somewhat artistic cinematography. The only reason I stayed in the theater for the entire film was because I kept hoping it would have some point or get better. I did not find it deep at all. In fact, as a mental health professional, I felt that it trivializes/fetishizes the plight of self-injurers in a way that turns them into zoo animals (or at best, anthropological oddities to be gawked at) rather than multidimensional human beings. If you want to see a sensitive (but still erotic) portrait of a self-injurer, see "Secretary" instead of this overrated, self-referential, self-obsessed garbage.
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Marc084posted 392 days ago
