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Carine Adler (writer)
Release Date:
22 May 1998 (USA) more
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Your body betrays your soul.
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Although married and pregnant Rose has always been Mother's favorite, it is younger sister Iris whose life is shaken up by Mother's death... more | add synopsis
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7 wins & 3 nominations more
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Samantha Morton | ... | Iris Kelly |
 | Claire Rushbrook | ... | Rose Kelly |
 | Rita Tushingham | ... | Mum |
| Christine Tremarco | ... | Vron |
 | Stuart Townsend | ... | Tom |
| Matthew Delamere | ... | Gary |
| Mark Womack | ... | Frank |
| Clare Francis | ... | Elena |
| Joe Tucker | ... | Sam |
 | Daniel O'Meara | ... | Max |
| Crissy Rock | ... | Compere |
| Lisa Millett | ... | Sylvia (as Lisa Millet) |
| John Whitehall | ... | Man at station |
| Marie Jelliman | ... | Manageress |
| Michelle Byatt | ... | Woman In Lost Property |
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82 min
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Germany:16 | Iceland:16 | South Korea:18 | Argentina:16 | Australia:R | Finland:K-14 | France:U | New Zealand:R18 | Norway:15 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | UK:18 | Canada:AA (Ontario)
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Director Adler based her ideas for the script on forensic psychiatrist Estela Weldon's book "Mother Madonna Whore" which argues that, whereas men externalize their grieving processes through anger, women internalize them via paths which can incorporate such extreme reactions as mutilation and promiscuity. more
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Features L'hippocampe (1934) more
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This is a very good film. It grabbed my attention after seeing the great Morvern Callar last week, which also features Samantha Morton. As said in other comments, Under the Skin is considered her breakthrough. She is a truly gifted actress, I love her depth of emotion.
At one point in this movie she walks along a ribbed fence, while touching it with her right hand: taktaktaktaktak. I don't know if this is a reference, but it reminded me of a scene in one of Kieslowski's Trois Couleurs films (Rouge, I believe.) There an equally tormented woman walks along a brick wall in a similar way, wounding her right hand which starts to bleed heavily.
I wouldn't say those films are really the same, but I would certainly recommend the one if someone would like the other. In both films, as well as Morvern Callar, we follow a female protagonist unable to deal with a traumatic experience, the passing away of someone very close to her. We follow her down the road of estrangement, wondering if she will ever find peace.