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Comforting Skin
A lonely young woman's desperate need for emotional and sexual companionship draws her into a surreal and ultimately destructive relationship with a shifting and whispering tattoo she has willed to life on her skin.
Release : | 2011 |
Rating : | 4.6 |
Studio : | Feelgood Pictures, Brainstorm Productions, |
Crew : | Director, Writer, |
Cast : | Victoria Bidewell Tygh Runyan Philip Granger Jenn Griffin Paul Jarrett |
Genre : | Fantasy Drama Horror Thriller |
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I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
A complete waste of time. Who funds this crap? There is no gore, violence, just a bunch of bad tats cgi crawling all over the tattooed girl the whole movie and some sex. That's it. I was hoping it would at least build up to a decent climax and that didn't even happen. This movie was so bad and boring I admit I had to fast forward part of it. I saw this movie on netflix- most of the horror movies on netflix are about 80% bad but this is by far the worst I've seen.The only comfort was when it was over.
I'm not one of those people who likes any and every movie they watch. This movie is unlike any other I have seen, and the characters, while depressed and full of psychological issues, are relatable and likable. The story is unusual and touches on many real subjects people deal with daily. Great cinematography.
Brave? Darkly beautiful? Um, no. Couldn't care less about the characters. Constant use of the F word does not make film edgy. I have to admit, I turned it on because Netflix selected it as something I'd watch--probably because I'm a horror fan and the whole "talking tattoo" thing. The main character writhing around with her fantasy lover was the final nail in the coffin for me. Even that would have been tolerable if I could have cared even a bit for the main character, a person who was never shown to have any redeeming qualities that the audience could identify with. If there had been even one character with redeeming qualities, it might have been worth sitting through, but it didn't. The movie consisted of nothing but laconic, boring, self-absorbed people obsessed with their sexuality. I wish that film-makers would remember that sex can be the moving force behind a drama without it being the focus of the movie.
I really like this film and I'll tell you why. When seeing Canadian films we tend to see the dark and quiet and its almost like a European film but you can't quite put your finger on it. Oh yes, its Canadian. But Comforting Skin is different in a way that we haven't seen a film like this in a while. It is a strange yet familiar coming of age film, meaning out of young middle 20's. You know, the time of moving away from the chaos of poor judgement and freedom and into adulthood. The point where you are suddenly awake. Its not your typical Canadian film or film at all and that is why its so refreshing. The acting is great. Tygh Runyan and Jane Sowerby do a good job at carrying the story and you never know whose perspective the story its being told from. However, Victoria Bidwell gives an exceptional and under-rated performance as Koffie, the distraught young lady who becomes obsessed with her imaginary or non-imaginary friend that is a the weaving tattoo that has come to life on her body. Franson writes and directs in such a way that you'll root for Koffie and you'll hate her and them and then there are redeeming traits from them that will bring you back to really empathizing for all of them.This film will keep you guessing and will linger in your mind for days after. Those ones are the best.