New Almodovar Movie: Review
Lars von Trier’s announcement at a press conference yesterday that he’s a Nazi, and his subsequent banishment, was the big news this week at the Cannes Film Festival. So the new Almodovar movie was pushed to metaphorical sidebar status. Sample review: ‘As implausible as it might seem, the cinema world of Pedro Almodóvar just got stranger in “The Skin I Live In (La Piel Que Habito).” Along with such usual Almodóvar obsessions as betrayal, anxiety, loneliness, sexual identity and death, the Spanish director has added a science-fiction element that verges on horror. But like many lab experiments, this melodramatic hybrid makes for an unstable fusion. Only someone as talented as Almodóvar could have mixed such elements without blowing up an entire movie.’
