Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Marina de VanEsther
- Laurent LucasVincent
- Léa DruckerSandrine
- Thibault de MontalembertDaniel
- Dominique ReymondLa cliente
- Bernard AlaneClient
- Marc RioufolHenri
- François LamottePierre
- Adrien de VanL'intern
- Alain RimouxLe pharmacien
Recommendations
- 90
Village Voice
Without deploying reductive backstory or simplistic psychology, this fearless movie -- easily the year's best debut feature -- illuminates Esther's pathology as an extreme response to the mind-body split. - 80
The A.V. Club
Makes heavy demands of even jaded viewers, who are unlikely to stomach de Van's anatomical noodling from the same curious distance. But for the brave, the film's literal journey to find the "I" inside the body moves forward with a riveting single-mindedness. - 80
Variety
Delves far more deeply into grisly physical manifestation than psychological motivation, making it seem something of an actorish vanity piece. But the drama is directed with arresting spareness and control. - 80
The New York Times
As unrelenting an exploration of isolation and dissociation as Roman Polanski's "Repulsion." - 75
Christian Science Monitor
The results are unsparingly perverse and oddly spellbinding. - 75
New York Post
Needless to say, In My Skin isn't for everybody. It's recommended to viewers who, like Esther, want to feel something, no matter how distasteful. - 70
L.A. Weekly
The movie surely owes something to Polanski, Cronenberg, et al., in its use of an apparently placid, upper-middle-class setting as the background for perverse horrors, but De Van's fearless, high-wire performance is uniquely its own. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
An experience you won't easily shake.
