The Skin I Live In
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Year: 2011
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish Language
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Blanca Suárez, Marisa Paredes, Eduard Fernández, Jan Cornet, Roberto Alamo, Ana Mena, Teresa Manresa, Bárbara Lennie, José Luis Gómez, Chema Ruiz, Agustín Almodóvar, Susi Sánchez, Miguel Almodovar, Guillermo Carbajo, Fernando Iglesias, Violaine Estérez, Concha Buika, Fernando Cayo
The Skin I Live In (Spanish: La piel que habito) is a 2011 Spanish thriller film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet, and Roberto Álamo. The Skin I Live In is based on Thierry Jonquet's novel Mygale, first published in French and then in English under the title Tarantula. The film premiered in May 2011 in competition at the 64th Cannes Film Festival, and won Best Film Not in the English Language at the 65th British Academy Film Awards.
Almodóvar has described the film as "a horror story without screams or frights". The film was the first collaboration in 21 years between Almodóvar and Banderas.
The film is set in Toledo, Spain.
Surgeon Robert Ledgard has succeeded in cultivating artificial skin resistant to burns and insect bites, which he says he has been testing on athymic mice, which he calls “GAL”. He presents his results in a medical symposium but the head of the institute suspects that he is not disclosing everything, which turns out to be true, when Dr. Ledgard admits in private that he also has conducted transgenetic experiments which are accountable for his formidable results, but is also illegal. Dr.
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