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The Skin I Live In
Surgeon Robert Ledgard is successful in cultivating artificial skin burns and insect bites resistant, yet he said he has been tested on mice, which he called 'GAL'. He presented his results in a medical symposium, but he was forbidden to continue his studies.
1967, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
November 12, 1986 in Tordoia, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
1956, Cedillo de la Torre, Segovia, Castilla y León, Spain
October 29, 1986 in Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
1970, Madrid, Madrid, 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
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.
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 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 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.
November 03, 2011
Pedro Almodóvar wows with the meticulous visual design of his films, but sometimes his narrative architecture is every bit as dazzling.
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 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.
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.
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.

