Review of The Skin I Live In (2011) by Jamesl — 21 Nov 2011

After three straight boring disasters, this film is an improvement. He is still no where near the top of his game as in "All About My Mother" or "Talk to Her" but at at least I was interested and did not walk out shaking my head and cursing.

The story was too convoluted for the mild payoff that we got at the end but at least there was a payoff. Pedro is simply running out off his bag of kinky tricks as times are passing him by. Een the old style 1960's endings are starting to lose their allure.

Still, it gave me hope that the next film may return us to the mountaintop we reached a decade ago. I am wiling to give it a try.