Under the Skin (1997)
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Reviews Counted: 22 Fresh: 19 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 6.8/10
Runtime: 85 mins
Synopsis: Iris (Samantha Morton, SWEET & LOWDOWN, JESUS' SON) a young working class English woman, loses herself in a string of casual lovers as a way of coping with the death of her beloved mother (Rita Tushingham, A TASTE OF HONEY). A powerful festival hit from writer/director Carine Adler.... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Claire Rushbrook, Samantha Morton, Rita Tushingham, Stuart Townsend, Christine Tremaraco
Director: Carine Adler
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06/24/06
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Top CriticIn what is one of the great “woman-descends-into-madness” flicks alongside “Repulsion,” Morton is never less than searing.
01/02/03
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... a raw and occasionally depressing first film with moments of chilling recognition and a remarkable young star.
08/08/02
Reminds us what it's like to see an actress go to work when she has a juicy role to play.
01/28/02
In her feature debut, Adler shapes her film gracefully and elicits a scorching no-holds-barred, totally selfless portrayal from Morton.
02/14/01
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I would not want to spend much time with this Iris, and frankly the 85 minutes Under the Skin runs is longer than anyone should have to spend with her.
01/01/00
Made with a novelist's eye for detail and a quietly impassioned visual flair.
01/01/00
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01/01/00
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Delightfully freighted with heavy sensuality, some deadpan comedy, and a character whose loneliness should strike a chord in all of us.
01/01/00
Morton makes Iris real. Every moment she's on screen, the actress forces us to accept Iris as a living, breathing individual.
01/01/00
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While Ms. Morton embodies the role with furious intensity and with a raw yet waifish presence that brings both Emily Watson and Claire Danes to mind, Ms. Adler directs the film in ways that live up to its title.
01/01/00
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After a promising beginning ... the crux of the story ... is taken for granted and any established empathy for Iris' sad plight dwindles fast.
01/01/00
It isn't often that a film offers a heroine who is this aggressive, angry and self-punishing, and the filmmaker and her star work in perfect harmony to get at all the complexity behind it.
01/01/00
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