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The Skin I Live In

La piel que habito

2011

Pedro Almodóvar

Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet ...

6.6

57,466

Thriller. Drama Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard (Antonio 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Dave Calhoun Time Out	"Once again Pedro Almodóvar reveals his genius for turning the ridiculous into the sublime (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out fo five)"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Exhilarating film (...) it’s an Almodóvar movie with all the attendant gifts that implies: lapidary technique, calculated perversity, intelligent wit."	POS
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"Like many lab experiments, this melodramatic hybrid makes for an unstable fusion. Only someone as talented as Almodóvar could have mixed such elements without blowing up an entire movie"	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"Not for everyone — there will be heated debate about at least one plot turn — but high-level filmmaking. The year’s classiest horror movie. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"The director, having found an ideal vehicle for his sensibility, was unwilling to return the favor by fully embracing the inherent darkness of the material"	NEU
United States	David Denby The New Yorker	"As a piece of design, 'The Skin I Live In' is exceptionally handsome (...) a textbook of expository technique, but it’s all craft and shine; it is the least enjoyable of Almodóvar’s films, a movie that is serious without being intelligent."	NEU

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