The skin I live in (august, 26, 2011) Cast: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Blanca Surez

Director: Pedro Almodvar Synopsis: Surgeon Robert Ledgard was successful in cultivating artificial skin resistant to burns and insect bites, which he says he has been testing on athymic mice, which he calls GAL. He presents his results in a medical symposium but when he privately discloses he has also conducted illegal transgenetic experiments on humans, he is forbidden to continue with his research. Review: The film The skin I live in is a luxury pulp fiction that inspires the atmosphere of the sick-room, as the main theme of Pedro Almodvars production. Adapted from the novel Tarantula by T. Jonquet it is a truly macabre thriller and a nightmare melodrama. Surgeon R. Ledgard, an wealthy and brilliant plastic surgeon who finished an equipped his house with its own private operating theatre, is secretly experiencing on the beautiful and submissive Vera, whose entire skin covering he is replacing with an eerily smooth artificial substance, derived from pig hide. During the movie, it is obvious that the captor and captive appear to be in love. Yet it is a relationship that can only end as it began in violence. We learn that Roberts wife was disfigured in a car crash several years earlier and killed herself, and that he lost a daughter, Norma (Blanca Surez), too. A flashback to six years earlier reveals what happened to Norma and begins to explain why Vera is now a prisoner in Roberts home. The colors, particularly the color red, loom almost woozily out of the screen here's a movie that doesn't need 3D. One of the most striking things about this film is the way the visual effect is intensified by the pulsing orchestral score. The music surges and throbs; the surgical instruments of blood are shown with minute care, revolvers are casually disclosed in handbags and desk drawers, and Almodvar unveils some terrific overhead of crime-scene tableaux. The cast is really exceptional. Banderas is a wonderfully charismatic leading man. He is also stylish, debonair, but with a chilling touch of determination and menace. Even that there will be some to find this film, at 120 minutes, rather too absurd and that some critics have found it essentially heartless, it is the original manner of creating a horror comedy. If I were to have one complaint about the film, it would be that it can be traumatic for someone. For this reason, I would rather recommend to watch this movie only if youre sure you have an emotional and mental balance, regarding the strong psychological impact of the scenes.