In My Skin (2002)
"Dans ma peau" (original title)

A woman grows increasingly fascinated with her body after suffering a disfiguring accident.

Director:

Marina de Van

Writer:

Marina de Van

Stars:

Marina de Van, Laurent Lucas, Léa Drucker

1 win.

Cast

Credited cast:
Marina de Van	...	Esther
Laurent Lucas	...	Vincent
Léa Drucker	...	Sandrine
Thibault de Montalembert	...	Daniel
Dominique Reymond	...	La cliente
Bernard Alane	...	Le client
Marc Rioufol	...	Henri
François Lamotte	...	Pierre
Adrien de Van	...	L'interne
Alain Rimoux	...	Le pharmacien
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Chantal Baroin	...	Invitée
Caroline Brunner	...	Serveuse
Wilfried Malori	...	Nageur
Giovanni Portincasa
Damien Roussineau	...	Nageur

Storyline

A woman grows increasingly fascinated with her body after suffering a disfiguring accident.

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Plot Keywords:

suffering | dancer | bandage | nudity | car accident | 

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Genres:

Drama | Horror

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Official Sites:

Wellspring Media [us]

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

4 December 2002 (France)

Also Known As:

In My Skin

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$7,572 (USA) (7 November 2003)

Gross:

$31,046 (USA) (12 March 2004)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Lazennec & Associés, Canal+, Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Referenced in Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (2006)

User Reviews

The sums of her parts

Women's self mutilation has unfortunately because as common a subject as Hollywood hippest diet; in other words, a sad realization. The existentialist Simone de Beauvoir wrote that in order to gain power women needed to first define themselves because their reality had been defined by patriarchy and a male eye. It is therefore easy to understand why women would mutilate the body they have, since it is something that they have not yet learned to relate to as theirs. This gem of a movie has more tons to it that bears the eye. Beneath the bloody squirt of the skin pulled from the flesh and the muscle, lies the bone of the complexity of the part relating to the whole, the obsessive details our society feeds upon and the excruciating distance between food and its root. Filmed in a daring way, with repetitive and surrealistic close-ups, the films soaks in a Kafkaesque reality. The protagonist becomes the investigator, investigating herself desperately trying to grasp meaning of herself and our modern world, while flirting with madness. There is always one line or one word that sums up a good movie. For Chinatown, it was "get the girl", for Reservoir Dogs it was " we are professionals", and for In my Skins, the word is "details". Pay close attention.