In My Skin
In My Skin
In My Skin
Ohjaus:
Marina de VanKäsikirjoitus:
Marina de VanSävellys:
Esbjörn SvenssonNäyttelijät:
Marina de Van, Laurent Lucas, Léa Drucker, Thibault de Montalembert, Dominique Reymond, Bernard Alane, Damien Roussineau, Alain Rimoux (lisää)Suoratoistopalvelut (1)
Juonikuvaukset(1)
Esther, a self-conscious young woman who works for a public relations firm. One night at a party with her friend Sandrine, Esther wanders into the backyard and stumbles, scratching her leg on a piece of scrap metal. She goes back to the party, and later realizes that her injury is much more severe than she had thought. There's a huge, ugly gouge all the way up her shin, and she's bleeding profusely. She goes to a doctor, who patches her up and tells her she might need a skin graft. But Esther becomes obsessed with the wound. She won't let it heal, sneaking away during work to cut herself. As her leg becomes an ugly scarred mass, she begins to notice a problem with her arm. Before long, she's alienated Vincent and jeopardized her job with her compulsive, self-destructive behavior. But she continues on her grotesque downward spiral. (jakelijan virallinen teksti)
(lisää)Arvostelut (2)
Formal and psychological greyness and a huge borefest that hides behind a supposedly controversial and not very often addressed topic in films. Self-harm is, of course, a fetish worthy of a thorough cinematic probe, but Marina de Van doesn't even come close to it and only attempts to break the taboo in two slightly explicit scenes (which, dear fans of extreme cinema, can't be compared to every other representative of New French Extremity). I understand the idea of the impossibility of somehow supporting and confronting this psychological block, but I don't understand why I had to stare at 90 minutes of pure filmmaking shoddiness that doesn't psychologically progress and in sum goes nowhere.
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In order for the film to have an impact, it strives for a rather artistic approach rather than trying to win over the audience. There are unnecessarily long scenes that can become quite boring after a while, even though they depict self-harm fairly convincingly. Marina de Van became intoxicated by her idea and plot, only to end up halfway and essentially bring nothing additional, just the self-harm itself, which simply makes an impression because it will not be a pleasant sight for you.
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