Opens
Friday, Nov. 7
NEW YORK -- This debut feature directed by and starring the co-author of Francois Ozon's "Under the Sand" and "8 Women" is a bizarre exercise in perversion that will well test even the most jaded art house audiences' appetite for the offbeat. The tale of a young woman who becomes obsessed with her own wounds, "In My Skin" should do for scab picking what David Cronenberg's "Crash" did for car accidents. The film is playing New York's Angelika Film Center, to be followed by a national expansion.
Director-screenwriter Marina de Van ("See the Sea") also plays the central role of Esther, a vibrant young woman working her way up the corporate ladder. Involved in a long-term relationship with her boyfriend, Vincent (Laurent Lucas), Esther seems normal enough until she suffers an accident at a party that results in a deep, bloody gash to her leg.
Rather than experiencing revulsion at this mutilation of her flesh, Esther instead becomes fascinated with the landscape of her own body. At first this results in fairly benign behavior as she caresses and manipulates her skin at every opportunity. As with every addict, she goes further and further, creating new wounds in addition to her old one and treating the resulting cuts and scabs like a conceptual artwork. At first she manages to cover up her behavior from friends and colleagues, but soon the damage is too extensive to conceal. Eventually, she takes it to the next level, eating pieces of her own flesh and trying to have a large sample of her skin preserved by tanning.
Lacking Cronenberg's or David Lynch's cinematic style, the film eventually becomes a numbing, repetitive and, yes, gross exercise in would-be shock value. If forced to sit through a film in which the central character tries to consume her own body, the least one would expect is not to be bored.
IN MY SKIN
Wellspring
Lazennec Films/Canal Plus/Natexis Banques Populaires Images
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Marina de Van
Producer: Laurence Farenc
Director of photography: Pierre Barougier
Editor: Mike Fromentin
Music: Esbjorn Svensson Trio
Production designer: Baptiste Glaymann
Cast:
Esther: Marina de Van
Vincent: Laurent Lucas
Sandrine: Lea Drucker
Daniel: Thilbault de Montalembert
Female Client: Dominique Raymond
Male Client: Bernard Alane
Running time -- 93 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Friday, Nov. 7
NEW YORK -- This debut feature directed by and starring the co-author of Francois Ozon's "Under the Sand" and "8 Women" is a bizarre exercise in perversion that will well test even the most jaded art house audiences' appetite for the offbeat. The tale of a young woman who becomes obsessed with her own wounds, "In My Skin" should do for scab picking what David Cronenberg's "Crash" did for car accidents. The film is playing New York's Angelika Film Center, to be followed by a national expansion.
Director-screenwriter Marina de Van ("See the Sea") also plays the central role of Esther, a vibrant young woman working her way up the corporate ladder. Involved in a long-term relationship with her boyfriend, Vincent (Laurent Lucas), Esther seems normal enough until she suffers an accident at a party that results in a deep, bloody gash to her leg.
Rather than experiencing revulsion at this mutilation of her flesh, Esther instead becomes fascinated with the landscape of her own body. At first this results in fairly benign behavior as she caresses and manipulates her skin at every opportunity. As with every addict, she goes further and further, creating new wounds in addition to her old one and treating the resulting cuts and scabs like a conceptual artwork. At first she manages to cover up her behavior from friends and colleagues, but soon the damage is too extensive to conceal. Eventually, she takes it to the next level, eating pieces of her own flesh and trying to have a large sample of her skin preserved by tanning.
Lacking Cronenberg's or David Lynch's cinematic style, the film eventually becomes a numbing, repetitive and, yes, gross exercise in would-be shock value. If forced to sit through a film in which the central character tries to consume her own body, the least one would expect is not to be bored.
IN MY SKIN
Wellspring
Lazennec Films/Canal Plus/Natexis Banques Populaires Images
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Marina de Van
Producer: Laurence Farenc
Director of photography: Pierre Barougier
Editor: Mike Fromentin
Music: Esbjorn Svensson Trio
Production designer: Baptiste Glaymann
Cast:
Esther: Marina de Van
Vincent: Laurent Lucas
Sandrine: Lea Drucker
Daniel: Thilbault de Montalembert
Female Client: Dominique Raymond
Male Client: Bernard Alane
Running time -- 93 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Opens
Friday, Nov. 7
NEW YORK -- This debut feature directed by and starring the co-author of Francois Ozon's "Under the Sand" and "8 Women" is a bizarre exercise in perversion that will well test even the most jaded art house audiences' appetite for the offbeat. The tale of a young woman who becomes obsessed with her own wounds, "In My Skin" should do for scab picking what David Cronenberg's "Crash" did for car accidents. The film is playing New York's Angelika Film Center, to be followed by a national expansion.
Director-screenwriter Marina de Van ("See the Sea") also plays the central role of Esther, a vibrant young woman working her way up the corporate ladder. Involved in a long-term relationship with her boyfriend, Vincent (Laurent Lucas), Esther seems normal enough until she suffers an accident at a party that results in a deep, bloody gash to her leg.
Rather than experiencing revulsion at this mutilation of her flesh, Esther instead becomes fascinated with the landscape of her own body. At first this results in fairly benign behavior as she caresses and manipulates her skin at every opportunity. As with every addict, she goes further and further, creating new wounds in addition to her old one and treating the resulting cuts and scabs like a conceptual artwork. At first she manages to cover up her behavior from friends and colleagues, but soon the damage is too extensive to conceal. Eventually, she takes it to the next level, eating pieces of her own flesh and trying to have a large sample of her skin preserved by tanning.
Lacking Cronenberg's or David Lynch's cinematic style, the film eventually becomes a numbing, repetitive and, yes, gross exercise in would-be shock value. If forced to sit through a film in which the central character tries to consume her own body, the least one would expect is not to be bored.
IN MY SKIN
Wellspring
Lazennec Films/Canal Plus/Natexis Banques Populaires Images
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Marina de Van
Producer: Laurence Farenc
Director of photography: Pierre Barougier
Editor: Mike Fromentin
Music: Esbjorn Svensson Trio
Production designer: Baptiste Glaymann
Cast:
Esther: Marina de Van
Vincent: Laurent Lucas
Sandrine: Lea Drucker
Daniel: Thilbault de Montalembert
Female Client: Dominique Raymond
Male Client: Bernard Alane
Running time -- 93 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Friday, Nov. 7
NEW YORK -- This debut feature directed by and starring the co-author of Francois Ozon's "Under the Sand" and "8 Women" is a bizarre exercise in perversion that will well test even the most jaded art house audiences' appetite for the offbeat. The tale of a young woman who becomes obsessed with her own wounds, "In My Skin" should do for scab picking what David Cronenberg's "Crash" did for car accidents. The film is playing New York's Angelika Film Center, to be followed by a national expansion.
Director-screenwriter Marina de Van ("See the Sea") also plays the central role of Esther, a vibrant young woman working her way up the corporate ladder. Involved in a long-term relationship with her boyfriend, Vincent (Laurent Lucas), Esther seems normal enough until she suffers an accident at a party that results in a deep, bloody gash to her leg.
Rather than experiencing revulsion at this mutilation of her flesh, Esther instead becomes fascinated with the landscape of her own body. At first this results in fairly benign behavior as she caresses and manipulates her skin at every opportunity. As with every addict, she goes further and further, creating new wounds in addition to her old one and treating the resulting cuts and scabs like a conceptual artwork. At first she manages to cover up her behavior from friends and colleagues, but soon the damage is too extensive to conceal. Eventually, she takes it to the next level, eating pieces of her own flesh and trying to have a large sample of her skin preserved by tanning.
Lacking Cronenberg's or David Lynch's cinematic style, the film eventually becomes a numbing, repetitive and, yes, gross exercise in would-be shock value. If forced to sit through a film in which the central character tries to consume her own body, the least one would expect is not to be bored.
IN MY SKIN
Wellspring
Lazennec Films/Canal Plus/Natexis Banques Populaires Images
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Marina de Van
Producer: Laurence Farenc
Director of photography: Pierre Barougier
Editor: Mike Fromentin
Music: Esbjorn Svensson Trio
Production designer: Baptiste Glaymann
Cast:
Esther: Marina de Van
Vincent: Laurent Lucas
Sandrine: Lea Drucker
Daniel: Thilbault de Montalembert
Female Client: Dominique Raymond
Male Client: Bernard Alane
Running time -- 93 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 11/7/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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