MOVIE REVIEW
Starring Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes. Directed by Pedro Almodovar. In Spanish with Thai and English subtitles. At selected cinemas.
The Skin I Live In
In this Spanish ero-thriller, Antonio Banderas plays Dr Robert Ledgard, a plastic surgeon who locks up a beautiful woman called Vera in his high-security mansion for an elaborate skin experiment whose calamitous outcome we sense from the start, but only get to fully appreciate at the end. As in earlier films by Almodovar, that bishop of high camp, perversion and carnal intrigue seep through the clean lines of the cinematography. Dr Ledgard is at once a perpetrator and the victim of a fatal infatuation; we learn that his wife perished in a horrid car accident years before and that Vera, clearly her substitute, has been kidnapped as part of a grandiose plan that could only have been dreamed up by a mad scientist.
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- Writer: Kong Rithdee
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