Pedro Almodóvar again reveals his genius for turning the ridiculous into the sublime with this creepy skin flick – THE SKIN I LIVE IN (2011) - a melodramatic thriller that is sombre but never sober and that moves through time and space with much of the boldness and style we’ve come to expect from Spain’s leading director. Antonio Banderas puts in a charismatic turn as a tragic figure touched by evil. The last time Banderas worked with Almodóvar was for ‘Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!’ in 1990. Twenty-one years later, they’re back together for an adaptation of Thierry Jonquet’s French novel ‘Mygale’ (‘Tarantula’ in English translation), the story of a plastic surgeon, Dr Robert Ledgard (Banderas), whose skills with the knife allow him to take control of a messy personal life in ways unimaginable to anyone but him. Banderas puts in a commanding performance in a film whose thriller tendencies are made doubly interesting by also being an artful study of masks and identities, sex and flesh, bodies and power.
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ARRIETY (2010)
SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD (2011)
LET THE BULLETS FLY (2010)
DOORS MR. MOJO RISIN' THE STORY OF LA WOMAN (2011)
CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (2011)
MONTE CARLO (2011)
HOSTEL PART 3 (2011)
ZOOKEEPER (2011)
TEMPEST, THE (2010)
FRIGHT NIGHT (2011)
APOLLO 18 (2011)
BUNRAKU (2010)
LEAP YEAR (2010)
DESIGN FOR LIVING (1933) 2 DISC CRITERION EDITION
NICHOLAS NICKLEBY (1947)
SOMETHING OF VALUE (1957)
TAWNY PIPIT (1944)
KEEP YOUR RIGHT UP! (Godard)
A WARM DECEMBER (1972)
MOON AND SIXPENCE, THE (1943)
VANINA VANINI (1961)
REV - SERIES 1 (2011)
RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD PART 2 (1987)