Synopsis
In a strange world where people share numerous deformities, the same problem we all face challenges each of them: to find someone who accepts you as you are. Sometimes, that means finding yourself first.
2017 ‘Pieles’ Directed by Eduardo Casanova
In a strange world where people share numerous deformities, the same problem we all face challenges each of them: to find someone who accepts you as you are. Sometimes, that means finding yourself first.
Pelle, Peaux
Woah. haven't seen this much slimy pink and purple since I stuck my head up someone's ass
Wow.
Se suele decir que, en el cine, ser raro es facilísimo y ser fascinante es lo más complicado. Para ser raro solo tienes que hacer cosas raras, para ser fascinante hay que elaborar una composición muy precisa que despierte sensaciones en el espectador. Pieles es una película rara que quiere ser tan rara todo el rato que al final todo se convierte en una gran gilipollez. No sé si veré algo peor este año, pero Casanova lo ha puesto difícil. Gracias por elevar el listón de la vergüenza ajena.
Lo más interesante del visionado ha sido cuando, en la oscuridad de mi buhardilla, una mota de polvo ha pasado por delante del televisor y ha hecho una parábola espectacular. Me ha distraído durante tres gloriosos segundos del bochornoso espectáculo que estaba presenciando.
I admit of my own guilty pleasure received from this film.
It's aesthetically beautiful, when it shouldn't be. Lots of soft pinks and purples intermingle in vast solitude alternating from scene to scene.
The prosthetics are genius and fit the story perfectly. If you're disgusted by this, it is because of you're lack of understanding. We are the thugs in the alley way raping the deformed. We treat others differently just by the way they look not because of who they are. Rephrasing a person with dwarfism, "I'm proud of it. I don't suffer from it, but I do suffer from the way society treats me."
Although, the story can be seen as over the top and unrealistic while being…
This was like a foreign Wes Anderson film meets Coraline in a pastel nightmare.
As someone who will watch just about anything, I’ve seen my fair share of disturbing images. None of them seem to compare to this film though. In some strange way I think I enjoyed this way too much, but WHY HAS NOBODY TALKED ABOUT THIS OR IS TALKING ABOUT THIS UHMM— this just makes me even more excited for spooky szn.
In all seriousness though— what a pleasant surprise this movie was. It’s an ensemble piece that deals with love, beauty, and how we come to terms with both. Repulsive at times, this was like a study on why we love the way we do. Is…
Is this film a commentary on how an exclusionary society objectifies, infantilises, manhandles, and patronises its differently abled subset or is it an exploitative film that aestheticises disability under an ableist gaze? Some questions may never be answered.
The most problematic element of this film is not the depiction of differently abled people in itself; rather, it is the fact that the film’s director, writer, and cast are all physically abled. An argument could be made that a differently abled director may choose to aestheticise disability in order to reclaim the cultural valuation that society inscribed to individual’s physical selves; however, the fact that the gaze of the film at all times is abled rather than disabled, these efforts appear to be gratuitous and exploitative.
In conclusion, some films are better not being made and this film is a perfect example of one.
I think it’s time we legally ban people on Tik Tok who watch, at most, five movies a year from recommending movies they find “disturbing” that they discovered while scrolling through Netflix.
the girl with an ass for a chin was the shittiest part of the film (*wink, wink*)
Well, Eduardo Casanova's feature film debut is a bit weird. It's certainly not a movie everyone likes, but I enjoyed it. So many bizarre characters and lots of original ideas, the whole thing beautifully wrapped in pink and purple tones. Sometimes I had to laugh, sometimes I was surprised and sometimes I had to suppress a tear.
A certain kiss scene towards the end was really special, that's probably called true love...
Como algunos sabrán, no suelo escribir descargas negativas por estos medios. Sin embargo, siempre hay una excepción.
No es que esperara mucho de Casanova; pero su ópera prima me ha resultado una absoluta pérdida de tiempo. Ojo, y toda la vida he sido un fiel defensor (y fan) del cine más zarpado y bizarro. Acá no funciona.
Esto es un desvarío extravagante plagado de burdo sensacionalismo y que tuvo la suerte de contar con unas sólidas muletas: vasta publicidad (incluso, conseguida a través de la censura misma) y el apadrinamiento de Álex De La Iglesia.
"Pieles" es un capricho que ni siquiera es hábil en su condescendencia con el cine más raro, mucho menos en el ejercicio de filantropía balurda…
me dio risa así que le pongo 3 estrellas por eso. el único personaje que me cayó un poco bien terminó muerto -_- rip
Just before we wrapped our lovely family FaceTime dinner, daddy-o asked, "Jack, do you remember the name of that movie with the girl with butthole lips?"
Excuse me?
This movie simultaneously tries too hard, yet not hard enough. Thank you, Netflix for always feeding my dad the strangest films in your library.
Sto film mi ha fatto cringiare fino al midollo. Ho cringiato così duro [on senso lett.] che penso di essermi rovinato lo smalto dei denti.
im sorry but the fact the girl has hair around her butthole mouth........ From an artistic perspective, this is a very striking movie aesthetically. It's like if you mashed up Wes Anderson and Black Mirror. Beautiful and campy but so fucking unsettling and im talking about the butthole girl
I understand this movie can be weird to some, but I love the concept and the morale of this movie that the director aims to educate.
Love can be in many different ways and is so fragile. In this movie, there are so many displays of unconditioned love, however, being misunderstood and put through in the wrong way that’s not desired.
I love this movie, and the songs, and how weird it is, that sets me thinking, and finish this movie wanting more from it. So one question, do u love me for me, I think so, because I know I look terrible so it can’t be loving me for how I look.
esse foi de longe o filme mais esquisito que eu já assisti tive ânsias de vomito por 1 semana toda vez q eu lembrava que tinha uma mulher com literalmente uma CARA DE CU e qnd ela fazia aniversario na hora de assoprar as velinhas ela apagava PEIDANDO no bolo. se o filme tivesse só isso de esquisito tudo bem mas tem muitas cenas que eu n aguentei assistir ou pulei pra preservar oq resta da minha saúde mental
filme terrível q causa mal estar nas pessoas parabéns
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