The Skin I Live In stars Antonio Banderas as the mad plastic surgeon, Dr. Robert Ledgard, who has had to deal with a series of maddening events in his life. Mad because his wife, burned beyond recognition in a car accident, commits suicide after seeing her once-beautiful-self transformed into an unrecognizable monster. Madder still because his daughter follows in her mother’s footsteps by jumping to her death, apparently at an asylum after having witnessed her own mother take her life. Maddest of all because the mad doctor himself stops at nothing in an attempt to somehow fix the madness of his past life.
The film opens with a sultry Vera (Elena Anaya) wearing a flesh-colored skintight bodysuit. The costume she wears houses a new type of synthetic skin developed by Dr. Ledgard. This super skin is resistant to damage and fire, but isn’t yet supposed to be tested on humans. As mad scientists typically do, Ledgard breaks the law and keeps Vera locked deep inside his posh mansion behind closed doors. For years. Vera eventually seems to fall in love with her sick doctor, and just as Ledgard begins to reciprocate, Zeca (the criminal son of his housekeeper) comes into the scene. He claims Vera is his former lover, Vera can’t remember him, and Ledgard is still crazy. Thus, a violent love triangle plays out and the plot gets deeper, revealing more of each character’s troubling pasts.
The Skin I Live In trudges along in the beginning with quite a few flashbacks and flash forwards. Your patience will pay off during the second and third acts of the film, however, when everything just seems to click into place. Finally, without spoiling too much here, you’ll have your moments of “Ahh…” and “Wow!” when a demented twist reveals and plays itself out.

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