La Propera Pell (2016)
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Duration: 100 minuten
Alternative title: The Next Skin
Country:
Spain / Switzerland
Directed by: Isa Campo and Isaki Lacuesta
Stars: Àlex Monner, Emma Suárez and Sergi López
IMDb score:
6,1 (2.211)
Releasedate: 21 October 2016
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
La Propera Pell plot
Gabriel, a missing teenager, is found in a home eight years later. Because everyone had pronounced him dead, his mother Anna doubts his identity. Gabriel returns to the family but gradually doubts grow: is he the missing boy or an impostor?
Actors and actresses
Ana
Léo/Gabriel
Enric
Michel
Joan
Clara
Glòria
Joan's Friend
Joan's Friend
Monitor
Reviews & comments
Movsin
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The secret surrounding a mysterious disappearance of a nine-year-old and then the truth about the authenticity of the eighteen-year-old who presents himself to the family is gradually unraveled and never really fully revealed.
It does increase the intensity of the questions that force themselves on the viewer, but it may leave the same viewer somewhat unsatisfied.
There is good acting, especially from Bruno Todeschina as the social worker.
One scene towards the end, with the prodigal son and his boyfriend and his girlfriend, seems to me out of place and actually superfluous.
A small 3.5
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Onderhond
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Yeah.
Marketing can't always be trusted, is sometimes also beyond the control of a film/director itself, but with this The Next Skin I still had the feeling that people tried to lure people in by quickly throwing in some genre elements.
In terms of poster, plot descriptions, genre indications, etc., the mystery is fairly hammered. That is of course also in the film, but the film itself does very little with it. Something is revealed left and right, but as a genre element it is a completely dead fact. But it lures better than the umpteenth social drama of course.
But that's ultimately the vibe I got from this movie. Filmed rather dejectedly, with tormented characters in a godforsaken village somewhere in Spain. What marginal youth who mopes around, is stuck in a difficult childhood and therefore carries mountains of sadness. A mystery is then created from the whole desolate background, but otherwise very little is done with it.
I didn't find the characters very interesting, nor did the development of the story and afterwards I felt a bit cheated by the film. And it's not that I can't switch gears halfway through a movie when expectations and reality don't seem to match, but rather being sneakily smuggled into some half-Dardenne movie isn't something that makes me very happy.
1.5*
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lang pee
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- 3333 messages
- 1442 votes
Was looking forward to this, but it was disappointing again and certainly the end, I'm not crazy about Spanish cinema and found this again so annoying and not very interesting.......
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