Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet, Roberto Államo |
| Director |
Pedro Almodóvar |
| Screenplay | Pedro Almodóvar, Agustin Almodóvar, from the novel by Thierry Jonquet |
| Music | Alberto Iglesias |
| Cinematography | José Luis Alcaine |
| Editing | José Salcedo |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2011 |
| Produced by | Canal+ España, El Deseo S.A., ICO, TVE |
Official Site | IMDB page
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| Genre | Drama |
| Language | Strongish, not frequent |
| Nudity | Strong, frequent |
| Sex | Strong |
| Violence | Very strong, including two extended rape scenes |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | Some, on one occasion inducing sexual violence |
| Comments | None |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith  Twisted, meticulously designed and melo-dramatic, this movie is not a normal story by any stretch of the imagination. | 15 |  |
| Die Burger Laetitia Pople Almodovar dwing jou om te kyk. | 15 | |
| Cape Times Kirk Honeycutt Almodóvar pastiche gets under the skin. | 10 |  |
| Box Office Richard Mowe Spanish icon Pedro Almodóvar lives up to his reputation for originality with this stunning take on the horror genre | 15 | |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert | 15 | |
| Metacritic.com 37 critics | 14 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 143 critics | 15 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer The Skin I Live In lacks Almodovar's famously charged romance, replaced with a wonderfully bizarre and unpredictable detour into arthouse ick. | 16 | |
| Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics   | 15 | |
| Movie Review Intelligence 47 critics | 15 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 14239 Netizens Hitchcock Would Have Been Proud of This | 15 | |
Average .. 73% | 15 | |