In My Skin 4K 2002 Ultra HD 2160p

Esther is a pretty 30-year-old woman working freelance for a PR firm. She is ready to make a radical change in her life: she is thinking of taking a full-time job with the company and moving in with her boyfriend Vincent. One night, while walking through a dark garden, she falls and hurts her leg. The cut is very deep, but she doesn't pay much attention to it... but a few days later, strange things start happening to her body....

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They are among us. They are all around us. They go about their business, unremarkable, ordinary, normal... They are also surrounded by the world of prefixes and comparative degrees: super discounts, hypermarkets, the best tooth-whitening detergents and toothpastes that remove stains that cannot be removed. They too have adapted, they too have gotten used to it, they too continue to live by inertia and accumulate emotions, experiences, thoughts/ And then they just go crazy. They go from the world of whole numbers to the world of fractions. Why? Alas, no one can give a clear answer to this question ...

At first glance, in the main character of the debut feature film by Marina de Van there is nothing unusual. Esther has a job. Esther has a boyfriend she loves. Esther has the prerequisites and opportunities for career advancement. But this is only the surface, the first impression, the shell..... One evening, walking in the dark in the garden, a woman falls and seriously injures her leg.

A normal person in her place would immediately go to a doctor, but Esther discovers the laceration only a few hours later, noticing her own bloody footprint on the bathroom floor... The action begins to slip from its usual trajectory, logic is sidetracked. Esther becomes obsessively interested in her own body, in what is hidden somewhere inside, under the skin... Esther no longer has Esther herself. The bloody self-discovery begins...

It's hard to tell if this woman feels anything as she rips open the stitches of an unhealed wound. What is it to her? Is it an attempt to feel pain? To feel that she's still alive in her small, air-conditioned office with stacks of papers around her? She cuts herself with anything, and when asked “Why?” she says, “I don't know. Maybe it's a futile search for ways to unite the body sold to society and the mind lost in everyday life? An attempt to hide from boring work, useless conversations and envy? A desire to get to the bottom of your core, literally? Again, it's hard to say...

Scary as it may seem, Esther's behavior is comparable to that of society as a whole. The impulse that drove a fragile woman to a painful intensity directed at herself was a wound, a deformation of a certain part of her body. Society reacts in much the same way. Give only an occasion, be it a political conflict, social metamorphosis, scandals, or anything else, and society will begin to divide itself into pieces, tearing open the shell and pulling out arguments, opinions, and actions that were once postponed until “better times”.

Which of the two sides of reality is most acceptable? The explicit external or the hidden internal? The image, divided into positive and negative at the very beginning of the picture, seems to suggest a logical conclusion - nothing is what it seems... What will Esther's gradual absorption of herself lead to? To the same point that a society that continues to search for and nurse the wounds in itself will come to....

Full of pain and suffering, this acutely naturalistic movie is unlikely to leave anyone indifferent. And not only because the viewer will have strong feelings for the woman who cuts and dismantles herself to pieces. Pain and suffering will go far beyond the screen, they will go to those who will see all this horror and literally feel the pricks of the fork and knife cuts, disgust and, perhaps, sadness... The effect will be comparable to a bucket of ice water, which will be poured over the thoughts, images and comparisons that came out of nowhere.

Info Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265 (81.1 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Info Audio

#French: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
#French: Dolby Digital 2.0 (Commentary by actress/director/writer Marina De Van)
#English: Dolby Digital 2.0 (Commentary by film critic/film programmer Justine Smith)
#English: Dolby Digital 2.0 ("Faculty Of Horror" podcast with Andrea Subissati and Alexandra West)

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