The Skin I Live In

The Skin I Live In (2011) starring Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes. Directed by Pedro Almodovar. A famous plastic surgeon, Robert Ledgard (Banderas), keeps a woman (Anaya) captive so that he can perform experiments on her skin. A flashback shows that he is trying to improve on human skin because his wife died years earlier after being burned horribly in a car crash. The flashback reveals other things, which I will not detail here, which radically change the viewer's preception of what is going on in this movie. Suffice it to say that Dr. Ledgard is a madman, and he uses his surgical skills for revenge. I thought that there were a lot of things in this movie that didn't make sense, and overall it doesn't have much of a point. It's in Spanish, with English subtitles. Grade: B-