In My Skin
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Marina de Van Run Time: 93 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2002 Language: French
Starring: Dominique Reymond, Laurent Lucas, Léa Drucker, Marina de Van, Thibault de Montalembert
A powerful vision of feminist rage in a gorgeous and grotesque breakthrough film. Esther’s life is panning out nicely. She will soon move in with her boyfriend Vincent and she seems set to get a permanent position at the public relations company where she freelances. All would be fine if Esther didn’t accidentally discover a piercing curiosity about her own body, one where the lines between painful pleasure and self-mutilation become irrevocably blurred. The film is known to be a direct inspiration for Julia Decourneau (Raw, Titane, Alpha). “From Claire Denis’ Trouble Every Day to Marina De Van’s In My Skin, cannibalism is by no means a new way for French women directors to interrogate notions of identity, place and agency” –Alexandra Heller-Nicholas.