
Beautiful, and with a loving boyfriend by her side, the Parisian marketing consultant, Esther, is a successful young woman who seems satisfied with her life, until a profound laceration in her leg caught her attention. Indeed, underneath this elaborate façade, Esther conceals a more compulsive self, who, little by little, begins to develop an enthralling and equally compelling fascination for the taste of her flesh, burrowing deeper and deeper into an unknown realm of self-m... (Full plot summary below)
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Beautiful, and with a loving boyfriend by her side, the Parisian marketing consultant, Esther, is a successful young woman who seems satisfied with her life, until a profound laceration in her leg caught her attention. Indeed, underneath this elaborate façade, Esther conceals a more compulsive self, who, little by little, begins to develop an enthralling and equally compelling fascination for the taste of her flesh, burrowing deeper and deeper into an unknown realm of self-mutilation and dreadful cannibalistic pleasure. Now--as the blind primitive impulses devour Esther--her ever-growing fits of fetishistic self-consuming rage, inevitably, will become noticeable to everyone, and above all, to her worried boyfriend. However, he, too, stands powerless before troubled Esther's unsatisfied cravings. How deep must she cut to discover the truth?
Leave your thoughts about In My Skin.
| New York Daily NewsJami BernardEven aside from the metaphorical aspect, this may be the first movie to give a precise sense of what drives people who self-mutilate. |
| San Diego MetropolitanJean LowerisonThis is a strange and twisted film, but perversely fascinating. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawPerverse and revelatory. . . (it) cuts into the underbelly of human behaviour with a mortician's precision. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekWinds up seeming little more than a grisly exercise in well-calibrated acting and what one hopes are well-executed special effects. |
| Seattle TimesJohn HartlLike most stories about addiction, it turns into a bit of a bore. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrIn My Skin takes that pain/pleasure principle and magnifies it until you're either dumbstruck or running screaming from the theater. |
| L.A. WeeklyScott FoundasThe movie surely owes something to Polanski, Cronenberg, et al., in its use of an apparently placid, upper-middle-class setting as the background for perverse horrors, but De Van's fearless, high-wire performance is uniquely its own. |
| New York TimesStephen HoldenAs unrelenting an exploration of isolation and dissociation as Roman Polanski's "Repulsion." |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanI can't claim that I honestly 'enjoyed' it, yet perhaps it's a form of praise to say that In My Skin is an experience you won't easily shake. |
| Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAn antidote to holiday cheer like no other, this French tale of psychological horror is as harsh as they come - its like finding a severed finger in your stocking and then finding its even better with hollandaise. |