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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This film starts mildly enough. A young, career minded woman cuts her leg deeply at a party but she carries on with her night of revelry, regardless. However, once Esther has the wound tended to she begins to violently rip at the stitches and there things spiral out of control. Her journey through self-mutilation esculates to mind boggling heights.
The sense of intense obssession and desperation is palpable in the film. Esther's alienation of those around her and disconnection from reality is frightening. At times I felt I was watching a genuine horror film. The refusal to explain why Esther is driven by the need to harm herself in such an extreme manner, adds the to feeling of being completely out of control with this film. Some films make you feel safe because you know where they're going and where they came from. But not 'Dans Ma Peau'.
An exercise in losing your grip as well as a thoroughly original film. Many people will feel it is too graphic but few would doubt this film really has pushed back cinematic boundaries.
The sense of intense obssession and desperation is palpable in the film. Esther's alienation of those around her and disconnection from reality is frightening. At times I felt I was watching a genuine horror film. The refusal to explain why Esther is driven by the need to harm herself in such an extreme manner, adds the to feeling of being completely out of control with this film. Some films make you feel safe because you know where they're going and where they came from. But not 'Dans Ma Peau'.
An exercise in losing your grip as well as a thoroughly original film. Many people will feel it is too graphic but few would doubt this film really has pushed back cinematic boundaries.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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A brave film dealing in the main with self-mutilation, but going even further by depicting self-cannibalisation. You become strangely drawn into watching the downward spiral of a seemingly normal businesswoman, and wondering to what level she will take it. She being Marina de Van, writer, director and star of this unique cinema.
As to why she is doing this to herself, that I suppose is open to your own interpretation, but I felt it portrayed the beginning of a decent into madness.
The story itself however is just too narrow, there isn't enough character development of the people affected by her actions - her colleagues and her boyfriend. The film would have been a little more insightful if we had been witness to a few scenes that did not include Marina de Van. She really does seem to be in almost every scene.
Definitely worth purchasing if you like watching something challenging, but it could have been better I think.
The DVD includes:
* A 4-page Booklet
* Director's Commentary
* Original Theatrical Trailer
* French Language with English Subtitles (can be turned off)
* Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
* Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
* DTS 5.1 Surround
* 1:85 Anamorphic Widescreen
As to why she is doing this to herself, that I suppose is open to your own interpretation, but I felt it portrayed the beginning of a decent into madness.
The story itself however is just too narrow, there isn't enough character development of the people affected by her actions - her colleagues and her boyfriend. The film would have been a little more insightful if we had been witness to a few scenes that did not include Marina de Van. She really does seem to be in almost every scene.
Definitely worth purchasing if you like watching something challenging, but it could have been better I think.
The DVD includes:
* A 4-page Booklet
* Director's Commentary
* Original Theatrical Trailer
* French Language with English Subtitles (can be turned off)
* Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
* Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
* DTS 5.1 Surround
* 1:85 Anamorphic Widescreen
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is perhaps an undiscovered gem of French cinema - and a film that I'm sorry I didn't watch sooner. Esther appears to be a totally normal 30 something, that is until she has a bad fall at a party and suffers a disfiguring injury to her leg.
After the wound has been dressed, she develops an unhealthy obsession with her own body and embarks on a journey of both self discovery and disfigurement, that is as difficult to watch as it is hypnotic.
This is not a story of depression and self-harm - no - this delves far deeper into the darkest realms of the human psyche, and it's not a film that you'll forget easily.
What is equally clever and disturbing about "Dans Ma Peau", is how the self harm scenes are highly sexual, and the pleasure she feels is conveyed perfectly, as we feel more aroused than disgusted by her actions - then again, maybe that's just me!!
If you love cinema that gets under your "skin" and refuses to leave, Marina De Van is welcoming you with open arms!
After the wound has been dressed, she develops an unhealthy obsession with her own body and embarks on a journey of both self discovery and disfigurement, that is as difficult to watch as it is hypnotic.
This is not a story of depression and self-harm - no - this delves far deeper into the darkest realms of the human psyche, and it's not a film that you'll forget easily.
What is equally clever and disturbing about "Dans Ma Peau", is how the self harm scenes are highly sexual, and the pleasure she feels is conveyed perfectly, as we feel more aroused than disgusted by her actions - then again, maybe that's just me!!
If you love cinema that gets under your "skin" and refuses to leave, Marina De Van is welcoming you with open arms!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Deeply disturbing
A highly original and extraordinary piece of work, Dans Ma Peau epitomises the very experimental nature of the 'New French Extreme'. Read more
Published 11 months ago by MR ANDREW ROSS
Disturbingly bland...
In contrast to the other reviews I found this film draining and tedious... it's an interesting proposition for a film - personally I tend to prefer "harrowing" cinema and I was... Read more
Published on 24 May 2010 by Ben J. Johnson
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