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Sony Pictures has set a limited release date for Pedo Almodovar's The Skin I Live In. Bloody Disgusting is reporting that the film will recieve an October limited release in Los Angeles and New York with expansion planned after that.

Synopsis:

Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault.

In addition to years of study and experimentation, Robert needed a further three things: no scruples, an accomplice and a human guinea pig. Scruples were never a problem. Marilia, the woman who looked after him from the day he was born, is his most faithful accomplice. And as for the human guinea pig…

The film also stars Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes,...

Reviews at Cannes painted Pedro Almodovar's new film, The Skin I Live In, as a muddled but sometimes effective thriller [1]. A new international teaser for the movie has landed, and it certainly hypes up the 'effective' part, even while suggesting the same all over the map tone of which some complained at Cannes. I got a kick out of this teaser because it makes the film look like it has the camp playfulness and style of Mario Bava's wild comic book classic [2] Danger: Diabolik, only filtered through the more intensely psycho-sexual and self-aware viewpoint of Peddro Almodovar. If I saw this without knowing anything else of the film I'd walk away pretty keen to see the film. See what you think, after the break. Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new...

Pathe has just released a new theatrical teaser for Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In starring Antonio Banderas. Earlier we have shared three clips and a teaser trailer for the movie, which looks eerie.

Here's the synopsis for the film:

Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault.

In addition to years of study and experimentation, Robert needed a further three things: no scruples, an accomplice and a human guinea pig. Scruples were never a problem. Marilia, the woman who looked after him from the day he was born, is his most faithful accomplice. And as for the human guinea pig…

The film also stars Elena Anaya,...

There are certain movies that, for one reason or another, just make me feel uneasy. Whether it’s the atmosphere, the tone, the people behind it, or the subject matter, they’re the kind of films that one could reasonably call “creepy.” I have yet to see Pedro Almodovar‘s The Skin I Live In, but everything we’ve seen from it so far – from a teaser to some stills – makes me think that it will be one of those films, and for some of the reasons mentioned above. Based on the novel Tarantula by Thierry Jonquet, the movie tells the story of “a plastic surgeon carrying out a vendetta on the man who raped his daughter.”

A new trailer has shown up at Twitch, and it isn’t making me feel any better. There’s something about this that comes off as wrong, but in a good way — maybe...

Here are three new clips from Pedro Almodova's The Skin I Live In starring Antonio Banderas. The film tells the unsettling story of a plastic surgeon who gets himself a human guinea pig to test out a new type of skin he is creating. I am kinda freaked out by the idea of this film, but at the same time interested in seeing what it has to offer.

The film also stars Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet, Roberto Alamo, Blanca Suárez, Eduard Fernández, José Luis Gómez, Bárbara Lennie, Susi Sánchez, Fernando Cayo and Teresa Manresa.

Here's the synopsis for the film:

Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault.

Here's an interestingly creepy teaser trailer for the new Antonio Banderas film The Skin I Live In directed by Pedro Almodovar. The film tells the unsettling story of a plastic surgeon who gets himself a human guinea pig to test out a new type of skin he is creating. The film is set to premiere up at the Cannes Film Festival, and will be released for the rest of us to see in November thanks to Sony Pictures Classics. This looks like it will be a solid psychological thriller worth checking out.

The film was directed by and also stars Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet, Roberto Alamo, Blanca Suárez, Eduard Fernández, José Luis Gómez, Bárbara Lennie, Susi Sánchez, Fernando Cayo and Teresa Manresa.

Here's the synopsis for the film:

Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested...

The Skin I Live In, the latest from writer/director Pedro Almodovar, is going to be weeeeeird.  I suppose we knew this from the logline: while plotting his revenge against the man who raped his daughter, a plastic surgeon (Antonio Banderas) imprisons and torments his partner (Elena Anaya) in an operating theater in his basement.  The new teaser trailer drives the point home, packing plenty of disturb into thirty seconds.  The Skin I Live In will premiere later this month at the Cannes Film Festival -- where prior Almodovar movies All About My Mother and Volver have won awards -- before a theatrical release in November. Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet, Roberto Alamo, Blanca Suárez, Eduard Fernández, José Luis Gómez, Bárbara Lennie, Susi Sánchez, Fernando Cayo, and Teresa Manresa also star in the film, based on the novel Tarantula by Thierry Jonquet.  Watch the trailer after the jump. Posted at Flix...

The working team of director Pedro Almodovar and actor Antonio Banderas was once potent, and while Mr. Almodovar has continued to make excellent films since their last pairing (Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! in 1990), Antonio Banderas has been slowly defanged over many years. So their reunion was reason enough to celebrate. The fact that their first film together in 20 years, The Skin I Live In, is a very messed-up sounding story about a surgeon and his... unusual... relationships with women make it even more tantalizing. The film premieres very soon in Cannes and has a November release date planned via Sony Pictures Classics in the Us. Now there is a wildly creepy teaser, which you can see after the break. This one is either going to significantly increase your interest in seeing the film, or help that interest dissipate altogether. I don't know about you -- I expect some...

Thanks to the power of the internet, we’ve learned when we’ll be able to see The Skin I Live In, Take Shelter, The Cabin in the Woods and Man on a Ledge.

According to ThePlaylist, Broken Embraces director Pedro Almodovar‘s The Skin I Live In, starring Antonio Banderas, will be getting a limited release from Sony Pictures Classics sometime in November. There isn’t an exact date, but it’s at least good to have a general idea of when we’ll be seeing the movie. Also starring Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet, Roberto Alamo, Blanca Suárez, Eduard Fernández, José Luis Gómez, Bárbara Lennie, Susi Sánchez, Fernando Cayo and Teresa Manresa, the movie certainly looks interesting, and will be playing in competition at this year’s Cannes.

For those who want to know more, they’re in luck, as a plot synopsis has been released. That...

Two films set to take part in the festivities at this year’s Cannes Film Festival have finally found themselves dates for their theatrical premieres.

First up, while it hasn’t been given an exact date, Sony Pictures Classics has announced that their upcoming release of Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In, will happen sometime during the month of November. Also, they have released a synopsis for the film, which will star Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet, Roberto Alamo, Blanca Suárez, Eduard Fernández, José Luis Gómez, Bárbara Lennie, Susi Sánchez, Fernando Cayo and Teresa Manresa. The film will also see the director re-team with his composer, Alberto Iglesias, cinematographer Jose Alcaine and editor Jose Salcedo.

Read more on Release Dates: The Skin I Live In, Take Shelter...

One of the upcoming projects that definitely deserves our full attention is Pedro Almodovar‘s The Skin I Live In.

Just in case you’re wondering why – first of all, the movie is scheduled to premiere In Competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Second, we finally have some new images to share with you, and we’re sure you’re going to love it!

Creepy as you see, but Almodovar had already described the film as “a horror story without scream or frights.”

Based on Thierry Jonquet‘s novel Tarantula the movie tells the story of a surgeon who tries to save the life of his wife by creating a new skin.

Here’s a little description: “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.

Cannes 2011 begins in less than a month and sadly I will not be able to attend. However that won’t stop me from posting news from the movies to be screened at the event. Pedro Almodóvar‘s The Skin I Live In is up in competition slot and has quickly made it’s way up my list of most anticipated films of 2011. Some new images from the film arrived over at Bleeding Cool and they look spectacular.

The Skin I Live In stars Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet, Roberto Alamo, Blanca Suárez, Eduard Fernández, José Luis Gómez, Bárbara Lennie, Susi Sánchez, Fernando Cayo and Teresa Manresa. Longtime collaborato composer Alberto Iglesias, as well as Almodovar’s usual DoP Jose Luis Alcaine and editor José Salcedo are once again onboard.

The film is a revenge picture loosely based on crime novelist Theirry Jonque‘s 2005 book “Tarantula.” Almodóvar describes...

One of our most-anticipated Cannes competition titles is Pedro Almodóvar‘s The Skin I Live In. Based on the book Tarantula, by Thierry Jonquet, Antonio Banderas will play a disturbed plastic surgeon who seeks vengeance on the man who sexually assaulted his daughter. After the standard drama of Broken Embraces, I eagerly await to see the surprises Almodóvar has in store with this one.

The film also stars Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet, Roberto Alamo, Blanca Suárez, Eduard Fernández, José Luis Gómez, Bárbara Lennie, Susi Sánchez, Fernando Cayo and Teresa Manresa. Check out the stills below from Abando (via Bleeding Cool), tiger suits and all.

The Skin I Live In premieres at Cannes Film Festival this May and will hit theaters by the end of the year.

What do you think of the new stills?

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Several new creepy posters popped up on 3xtras (via The Playlist) for Pedro Almod&#243var's The Skin That I Inhabit, a revenge film based on crime novelist Thierry Jonquet's 2005 book, "Tarantula," about a plastic surgeon's revenge on the man who raped his daughter. Check out the posters below!

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Sony Pictures Classics has picked up the film and will release it later this year.

The Skin That I Inhabit comes to theaters in 2012 and stars Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Blanca Suárez, Eduard Fernández, Fernando Cayo, José Luis Gómez, Bárbara Lennie. The film is directed by Pedro Almodóvar.

Pedro Almodóvar is heading to the Cannes Film Festival with his latest film The Skin That I Inhabit (La piel que habito) ready to screen. We posted one image before (seen above) but now the studio has released four new promotional photos for the picture which you can see below.

The film is a revenge picture loosely based on crime novelist Theirry Jonque‘s 2005 book “Tarantula.” Almodóvar describes his film as a “horror story without screams or shocks”. Almodóvar told the Spanish newspaper El Pais that the film is the “harshest he’s ever done and while it comes close to the terror genre, something that appeals to me that I’ve never done, I won’t respect any of its rules.”

Here’s a brief plot synopsis:

“The film follows a plastic surgeon’s revenge on the man who raped his daughter…this is a film that has a loathsome protagonist who,...

One of the most enticing films that may well play Cannes this year -- and, yes, one of the more frightening ones, too -- is Pedro Almodovar's reunion with Antonio Banderas, The Skin I Live In. The film is based on a novel called Tarantula that is nominally about a plastic surgeon who takes revenge upon the man who raped his daughter. But the novel sounds a lot more uncomfortable than a simple revenge film, because the surgeon also happens to keep his wife confined in their house, in which he forces her monthly into degrading sexual encounters with other men. Messed-up stuff, and definitely not what we've come to expect from Pedro Almodovar. We've seen one poster [1] for the film already that used a classic scientific illustration style to present one view of the film. Now there are some more posters, which position it much more explicitly as some sort of horror thriller.

The Skin That I Inhabit, based on Theirry Jonquet’s novel, “Tarantula,” has already secured U.S. distribution via Sony Pictures Classics and has hit the first full teaser poster via The Playlist.

“The Skin I Live In” (previously referred to as “The Skin I Live In”) is an upcoming Spanish film directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Antonio Banderas (reuniting after two decades with Almodóvar — Tie Me Up! Tie me Down!) and beautiful Elena Anaya (Van Helsing, Sex and Lucía). Almodóvar describes the film as

a horror story without screams or frights.”

The film concerns a plastic surgeon’s vengeance on the man who raped his daughter. But really, that’s just touching the surface. This is a film that has a hateful leading role who, while seeking justice for his daughter, keeps his wife jailed and subjects her to embarrassing sexual acts with strangers. The story also apparently features...

ThePlaylist have posted the first image of Antonio Banderas and Elena Anaya in Pedro Almodóvar’s new film The Skin That I Inhabit.

The Skin That I Inhabit is based on Theirry Jonque‘s 2005 crime novel Tarantula about a plastic surgeon’s (Banderas) revenge on the man who raped his daughter.

The film c0-stars a host of Spanish actors, including Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet, Roberto Alamo, Blanca Suárez, Eduard Fernández, José Luis Gómez, Bárbara Lennie, Susi Sánchez, Fernando Cayo and Teresa Manresa.

Check out the first look image below:

The Skin That I Inhabit will be released by Sony Pictures Classics later this year.

As you can tell from the set pics, principal photography on La Piel Que Habito (aka The Skin I Live In) has officially begun. This is Pedro Almodóvar's eighteenth film to date. The film tells the story of a disturbing revenge plan led by a plastic surgeon, and a film adaptation of the Thierry Jonquet novel “Tarantula” and stars Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Roberto Álamo and Marisa Paredes. The three month shooting will take place first in Santiago de Compostela, in the north of Spain, moving thereafter to Pazo de Oca and finishing in Madrid and the whereabouts of Toledo. Almodóvar will count with a healthy budget of 10 million euros. Aside from technical aspects, new details on the plot have been revealed this weekend, El Deseo S.A, Almodóvar´s production company, released the following: “Since his wife perished burnt in a car crash, Dr Ledgard (Antonio Banderas), a well respected plastic surgeon,...

With a nearly three month shoot about to kick off on his next project, filmmaker Pedro Almodovar ("Volver," "Broken Embraces") has revealed a more thorough list of the cast that will make up the 10 million Euros-budgeted feature "The Skin I Live In" (La Piel Que Habito).

Joining the already cast Antonio Banderas and Elena Anaya will be the likes of Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet, Roberto Alamo, Blanca Suárez, Eduard Fernández, José Luis Gómez, Bárbara Lennie, Susi Sánchez, Fernando Cayo and Teresa Manresa reports Impre via Bleeding Cool.

Banderas will play a plastic surgeon bent on revenge against the men who raped his daughter. Almodovar describes his feature as bordering on an outright horror film.

It was announced earlier this year that Pedro Almodovar’s next film, The Skin I Live In, will see him reunite with his Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! star Antonio Banderas.

An adaptation of Thierry Jonquet’s novel Tarantula, The Skin I Live in will be a ‘horror-terror’ film.

When asked about the film by the Spanish newspaper, El Pais, Almodovar said,

The film will be a terror film, without screams or scares. It’s difficult to define and although it comes close to the terror genre — something that appeals to me that I’ve never done — I won’t respect any of its rules. It’s the harshest film I’ve ever written and Banderas’ character is brutal.

A press release, found on website La Raza [via BleedingCool], reveals the full cast and crew for The Skin I Live In. I’ve embedded this below:

Starring Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya,...