pend the New Year with Almodóvar!

An MBC Premiere Presentation
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Beach HD Digital Premiere!

THE SKIN I LIVE IN

(La piel que habito)
Directed by PEDRO ALMODÓVAR/Spain/2011/117mins.
With Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya and Marisa Paredes

Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard (Banderas), 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 three more 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. This dark, twisted drama from Almodóvar is based on Thierry Jonquet’s novel Tarantula.

(In Spanish with English subtitles.)

OFFICIAL SELECTION: CANNES, TORONTO, NEW YORK Film Festivals

“DAZZLING TO WATCH!”-Wall Street Journal
“A beguiling fairy tale of vengeance, murder and obsession!.. Perhaps Almodovar’s most visually ravishing film”-Elle Magazine
“HITCHCOCK-EN-ESPANOL!… A film you’ll tell your friends they ABSOLUTELY MUST SEE”-Andrew O’Hehir, Salon.com

“Visually lush and thematically ambitious, the movie abounds in familiar Almodovarian pleasures.”-Dana Stevens, Slate.com