Under the Skin (2013)

Under the Skin (2013) Another film I hated! This film is a bit like Emma Stone ending up with Yorgos Lanthimos: we’ll always love Emma and we’ll always love Scarlett Johansson.

But this film is clearly one of her worst.
Apparently, she wanted to help out a friend of the director… while he probably just wanted to see her naked and even immortalise it as much as possible!

However, Jonathan Glazer has directed The Zone of Interest (2023), which I really want to see. I hope I won’t be equally disappointed.

His two previous films are Sexy Beast (2000), starring Ben Kingsley as a sociopathic gangster, and Birth (2004), which has an incredible cast including Lauren Bacall, Nicole Kidman, Peter Stormare, Ted Levine and Anne Heche.

Under the Skin holds no interest for me, even though some have considered it a masterpiece. How can it be?
Of course, everything about it is artistic: the images, the dark and gloomy colours, the disturbing music, the naked bodies, the deliberately long and very slow scenes. But that’s not enough to make a good film! Especially if it’s cruelly lacking in purpose. There’s no explanation, we don’t know why, where or how. We wander through this film as if we were prowling around a remote place we don’t know and which would have no charm. It doesn’t give Scotland a good image, and it’s a disgrace that this film was made there.

There’s absolutely no doubt that the book has to be better!

It’s rare that I see such stupid, boring stuff. I found it very hard to watch this yawn to the end. We can bury this film and put it back in the ground from which it should never have emerged. You should also know that fast-forward was also created for this kind of feature film and you’ll be done with it after 15 minutes! No need to waste an hour and a half.

But if you want to see a man-eating sex-queen whose body is merely the set for an alien…
What’s that? Wait!… What????
A film so mysterious that you don’t understand a thing.
When the interesting meets the banal…

Let’s round off this review with another mythical review to add to mine: ‘Watching this film… er, this extreme nonsense, all I wanted to do was throw myself out of the window, but too bad I didn’t have enough height. So I slit my wrists, smeared honey all over my body and jumped into a hungry anthill so that I wouldn’t have to endure such an atrocity as watching this thing that isn’t worthy of being called a ‘film’’.