A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key... Read allA brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
- Won 1 BAFTA Award
- 28 wins & 69 nominations total
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- TriviaAfter a few days of shooting, Pedro Almodóvar had a conversation with Antonio Banderas in which he told Banderas that he needed to drop all of his tics as an actor, because the director wanted a really restrained character and the actor was playing him in a more typical psycho way.
- GoofsWhen Doctor Robert Ledgard and his colleagues are preparing themselves for surgery, they fasten each other's surgical gown from the back, contaminating their sterile gloves.
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Profesora de Yoga en TV: There's a place where you can take refuge. A place inside you, a place to which no one else has access, a place that no one can destroy.
- Crazy creditsAt the start of the end credits, there is a rotating DNA double helix in the background.
- ConnectionsFeatured in At the Movies: Cannes Film Festival 2011 (2011)
- SoundtracksPor el amor de amar
(Versión Castellana)
Written by Jean Manzon and José Toledo
Performed by / interpretada por CONCHA BUIKA (Buika), al piano Iván González Lewis (as Iván 'Melón' Lewis)
© 1960, by Jean Manzon & Jose Toledo.
Autorizado para todo el mundo a Universal Music Publishing, S.L.
Todos los derechos reservados.
Grabado en CATA (Madrid).
Antonio Banderas is so terrific as the leading man, he hasn't looked this great in screen in a long time, I think he seems more at home in his native language, and Elena Anaya is absolutely radiant on the big screen, her face just lights up the screen and she is absolutely exceptional in a very strange role. The story is really a bizarre one, it's seems like a less perverted De Sade and a more understandable David Lynch, it always takes you by surprise and it is highly original and also somewhat daring I think, and thank god a director like Almodovar decided to film it and not some silly director.
The cinematography and music is beautiful, the colours and textures in the film are picked up beautifully by the camera and the music is a great companion to each scene, it's so close to perfection in the production design department that i would go so far to say as I haven't seen a better looking film this year.
This movie is in my opinion the least accessible of all of Almodovar's films but I hope it doesn't put people off, as his touch and style is clear and present here. It's very different, strange, perverted, horrific, beautiful and always entertaining.
Enjoy :)
- JimmyCollins
- Dec 27, 2011
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- €10,002,914 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $3,185,812
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $223,119
- Oct 16, 2011
- Gross worldwide
- $33,716,389
- Runtime2 hours
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- 1.85 : 1