The Next Skin (La propera pell) (2016)

Film Journal 2018 (179 movies items)

"A quaint, rather soapy drama about a teenager who may or may not be the long-lost son of a bereaved mother. He moves in with her in a snowy Spanish village. The milieu does a lot of the work in the film, as seeing a group of Spanish teens gather around an abandoned couch in a very, very cold cave isn't the type of thing you'd expect from the country. Unfortunately the story devolves to a rather trope-filled selection of predictable choices and over-acting. I do enjoy the switcharoo of a drunk gi"

“The thriller imposes over the melodramatic, bloody, familiar, incestuous, passionate, undertones. But there are those tones...” read more