Here’s a very trippy teaser poster for Pedro Almodovar’s THE SKIN I INHABIT (sometimes referred to as THE SKIN HABIT or THE SKIN I LIVE IN), which was posted on producer Agustin Almodovar’s facebook page a few days ago. More than likely, it’s just a promo teaser, perhaps being used at EFM, but it’s still mighty cool and creepy. What’s with the flamingo? Only time will tell…
In case you missed it, Sony Pictures Classics will distribute the film in North America later this year, while Warner Bros. will unleash it in Spain. There doesn’t seem to be a solid date yet, although September has been floated as a possible debut month.
Based on the novel TARANTULA, the film carries the following synopsis: Since his wife perished burnt in a car crash, Dr Ledgard (Antonio Banderas), a well respected plastic surgeon, gets interested in the creation of a new type of skin that could have saved his wife. Twelve years later he succeeds in cultivating it at his lab, taking advantage in the advance made on cellular therapy. To get to his goal he doesn´t doubt in trespassing the ethical limit of the transgenesis with human beings. But this will not be the only crime he will commit…
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