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The Skin I Live In
Wittered by the pitiable death of his wife, a brilliant doctor tries to avoid such painful event by creating a sensitive skin that can overcome burns, but he may have to contend with the general public on this one.
1967, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
25 August 1964, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
24 February 1982, Terrassa, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
October 29, 1986 in Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
22 April 1968, Valladolid, Valladolid, Castilla y León, Spain
11 May 1972, Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain
1955, València, València, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain
25 February 1997, Estepona, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain
1956, Cedillo de la Torre, Segovia, Castilla y León, Spain
March 02, 2013
Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In, a terrific, twisty thriller that is one of the filmmaker's best and one of the year's best films.
November 03, 2011
Pedro Almodóvar wows with the meticulous visual design of his films, but sometimes his narrative architecture is every bit as dazzling.
November 03, 2011
Despite its scalpel-like precision, pic falls short of its titular promise, never quite getting under the skin as it should.
June 23, 2013
This is a lush, deeply pleasurable film to experience on a sensory level; Almodovar couldn't produce a boring frame if he left the lens cap on.
November 05, 2013
Almodóvar has a body of work as rigorously personal as any out there, and, even with its flaws, he wears this latest Skin rather well.
October 07, 2015
"The Skin I Live In" fails because it doesn't have a moral or anything else to say in spite of its self-seriousness.
November 18, 2011
There are few filmmakers -- David Lynch comes to mind, Woody Allen -- who have a completely unique way of imprinting a film. Nobody but Pedro Almodóvar could have made The Skin I Live In. And that's high compliment.
July 01, 2013
Despite the typically invigorating sense of line and framing, The Skin I Live In withholds the director's customary satisfactions and affirmations. The result is a saga of obsession that, in its saturnine undertone, maintains a hard-to-enjoy integrity.
November 04, 2011
These are questions one is left with -- and that's not an entirely satisfying feeling. Yet it's hard not to be drawn into the story, and even more, into the gorgeous storytelling.
November 03, 2011
Only someone as talented as Almodóvar could have mixed such elements without blowing up an entire movie.
November 23, 2011
Few filmmakers are more assured or alluring, even when we fear we're following a monster.
May 09, 2016
In Almodovar's world, the flesh is deception, the comedy dark, the sex weird and the tears real; this time, however, the director just wasn't able to pull off all of these elements.

