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The Skin I Live In
Why this pick
Almodóvar again turns desire, bodily vulnerability and revenge into a glossy, tightly controlled melodrama with escalating unease and morally tangled characters.
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MOVIE1997 1h 43m ESP
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Madrid, Christmas 1970. The Spanish State has declared a state of emergency curtailing civil liberties. A young prostitute, Isabel Plaza Caballero (Penélope Cruz), gives birth on a bus to a son she names Víctor. Twenty years later, Víctor Plaza () shows up for a date with Elena (Francesca Neri), a junkie with whom he had sex a week earlier. Elena is waiting for her drug dealer to arrive and orders Víctor to leave, eventually threatening him with a gun. Enraged, Víctor wrestles the gun from her; in the process Elena gets knocked out, and the gun goes off. A neighbour hears the shot and calls the police.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Liberto Rabal
Víctor Plaza
Penélope Cruz
Isabel Plaza Caballero
Javier Bardem
David
Ángela Molina
Clara
Pilar Bardem
Doña Centro de Mesa
Mariola Fuentes
Clementina