Second Skin (Unrated Version)
by Gerardo Vera
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Actor: Ariadna Gil, Cecilia Roth, Javier Bardem, Jordi Moll?, Mercedes SampietroDirector: Gerardo Vera
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-04-15
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: New Yorker Video
Movie Reviews of Second Skin (Unrated Version)
Movie Review: Watch the movie for the AMAZING performances
Summary: 3 Stars
Adriadna Gil, Jordi Molla and Javier Bardem are simply phenomenal in this film. The characters all have such depth that you can live through their emotions through each one of the scenes. The movie is about Alberto (Molla) (No somos nadie), a married man who struggles with his homosexuality. Molla plays perfectly his role as the tortured man unable to deal with his homosexuality. His lies become a torture to him and, although his may want to be with his family, he continues his affair with Diego. His inability to follow the social norm is eating him inside and Alberto, although you may despise him for the cheating and the lying, makes you feel sorry for him at times. Molla truly carries this film.
Diego, his lover, does not know that Alberto is married and has a son, and in his desire to be with Alberto puts his career on the line. Bardem is simply phenomenal in this role; he is both genuine and compelling. Gil, who play Elena, is the dutiful wife who tries to come to terms with her husband's infidelity and homosexuality and rebels when she can no longer tolerate what is happening.
Gil (Lagrimas Negras: Black Tears) is amazing in her performance as the wife who tries to forgive her husband but is unable to. She lashes out, she rebels, she suffers and she tries to come to terms with the choices she makes.
Cecilia Roth (All About My Mother), an amazing actress, is merely fluff in this movie. She is given a secondary role who's only purpose is to relegate to the audience that Alberto is not a trustworthy man and that Diego is putting his career on the line. This is truly a pity because that was a waste of her talent.
I gave this film 3 stars because, although the character development is amazing, the plot seems to hurried and forced. The movie fell flat at times and the only thing carrying it forward were the amazing performances.
For those of you that want this info: This is not a movie for children, it has several steamy sex scenes (excellently made), both gay and straight.
Summary of Second Skin (Unrated Version)
Excellent acting elevates Second Skin to earnest heights of heartfelt melodrama in contemporary Madrid. It's a Spanish soap opera in the most intelligent sense, inviting comparison to the intimate passion plays of Pedro Alm?dovar and Eric Rohmer. Director Gerardo Vera's approach is more conventional, despite the fact that this modest tale of marital discord involves an unhappy wife, Elena (Ariadna Gil), whose suspicions are only slightly mistaken. Instead of another woman, her husband Alberto (Jordi Moll?) is having an affair with Diego (Javier Bardem, from Before Night Falls). He's tormented by his genuine love for his wife, child, and gay lover, and his inability to choose between them. Unfortunately, the screenplay decides for him, resorting to a last-minute twist of fate to resolve the dilemma that Alberto couldn't solve on his own. It's a cop-out solution, more suited to bad cable TV, weakening an otherwise honest and emotionally involving film. Recommended, with minor reservations. --Jeff ShannonArt House & International DVD Video
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