Bit of a fan of Almodovar, even if his last film Broken Embraces wasn't quite up to scratch.
Leaving behind Penelope Cruz, who was becoming a regular, he's turned to Antonio Banderas as the big name actor on which to hang his new project The Skin I Live In.
Banderas plays Robert Ledgard a renowned plastic surgeon and skin graph scientist who's haunted by past tragedy. What his colleagues don't know is that he's been taking his work home with him using a mysterious woman as his guinea pig.
And that's about as much as I can say about this deliciously twisted and perverse film without spoilers. If you think about it too much it messes with your mind and for that I loved it. Almodovar is back.
It's getting 83% from me. It's not been widely reviewed and doesn't seem to have a US release date yet, other than playing at a couple of film festivals in the Autumn, so there is no metacritic rating but it has 79% from audiences on IMDb. On Rotten Tomatoes it has a critics rating of 93%, although there aren't enough reviews for it to be deemed a consensus yet and an audience rating of 87%.
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