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Screening of Pedro Almodovar’s THE SKIN I LIVE IN

Pedro Almodovar’s THE SKIN I LIVE IN (Spain 2011) At Boathouse No 6, Action Stations Historic Dockyard

Wednesday 1 Feb. 7:30pm 120 min | Cert 12A

Almodovar’s latest film is a bizarre and stylish thriller. Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, (Antonio Banderas) an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault. In addition to years of study and experimentation, Robert needed three more things: no scruples, an accomplice and a human guinea pig.

“The Skin I Live In feels unlike any other Almodovar film – a quasi-horror exercise that’s improbably august and elegant. Yet it’s also uncannily familiar – an Almodovar film to the hilt.” (Jonathon Romney, The Independent 28. Aug. 2011)

With an opening talk by Dr Deborah Shaw, Film Studies lecturer at the University of Portsmouth.

Click here to watch the trailer on Youtube.

Kindly supported by the School of Creative Arts Film and Media, Portsmouth University. Entry is free for SCAFM students.

Full Members: Please reserve your seats to guarantee a place.

Unfortunately Student Superpasses are not valid for this screening.

http://www.portsmouthfilmsociety.org.uk

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25th January 2012