Skins

This unconventional, twisted, unpleasant and sick oddity from Spain got me. This strange film is a sort of episodic mosaic of different stories of people who have some sort of physical deformity, all in a modest setting and with an interesting soundtrack. There's a woman who has an anal opening instead of lips (that's probably the most twisted creation), a blind prostitute working in a brothel full of strange individuals, a boy whose dream is to lose his legs because he wants to become a mermaid, and more. There's also a lot of nudity even if mostly of extremely obese or elderly people, so nothing fancy to look at. In short, another film where you won't be entirely comfortable watching it, but it's also quite sad and mostly very WTF. Only for a fringe audience. The running time of 77 minutes is acceptable, and an extra star for originality. 70%. (03/04/2024)

I love bizarre films, but even they have to have at least some vision of what they want to be, what they want to convey and have a striking theme, plot or conclusion that will resonate with the viewer (Hereditary, Midsommar, Us, Enemy, Mother!...). Skins doesn't have this and thus I'm disappointed to say that while the Spaniards and Eduardo Casanova bring to the screen a heavy serving of bizarreness with a captivating purple-and-pink styling that's good to look at from an artistic standpoint, beyond that the film doesn't deliver anything that I outright want to remember or extensively praise. It's an artistic shout into the void with a form that's top notch, but no content or point of value. (06/07/2024)