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In My Skin

2002 · 93 min

A cold, intimate descent into obsession that is hard to shake and harder to look away from.

Directed by
Marina de Van
Genres
Drama, Horror
Starring
Marina de Van, Laurent Lucas, Léa Drucker
Tagline
Some truths cut deep.
Overview
After a disfiguring leg injury, a young woman develops an unsettling secret relationship with her own body in which pain is pleasure, mutilation is love and hungers of the flesh have a mind of their own.

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Directed by
Marina de Van
Genres
Drama, Horror
Starring
Marina de Van, Laurent Lucas, Léa Drucker
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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • obsession
  • identity
  • madness
  • isolation
  • trauma
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror7
Humour1
Realism6
Romance2
Tension7
Darkness9
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama, horror
Directed by
Marina de Van
Written by
Marina de Van
Starring
Marina de Van, Laurent Lucas, Léa Drucker, Thibault de Montalembert, Dominique Reymond, Bernard Alane, Marc Rioufol, François Lamotte
Music
Esbjörn Svensson
Cinematography
Pierre Barougier
Runtime
93 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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