Summary
Science-fiction drama starring Scarlett Johansson. A mysterious young woman prowls the rainy streets of Scotland by night, seducing the lonely men she encounters. Along the way, the woman makes a disturbing discovery about herself.
Science-fiction drama starring Scarlett Johansson. A mysterious young woman prowls the rainy streets of Scotland by night, seducing the lonely men she encounters. Along the way, the woman makes a disturbing discovery about herself.
Director Jonathan Glazer's third feature in 14 years (after heist thriller Sexy Beast and New York psychodrama Birth) is closer in abstract style to his surreal work in TV commercials - the Guinness surfer; the tenement-block paint symphony for Sony. Ostensibly the darkly esoteric tale of a mysterious, English-accented femme fatale (Scarlett Johansson) who preys on unsuspecting local men in Scotland, it opens with a jaw-dropping cosmic sequence (echoing Stanley Kubrick's 2001) and sets an otherworldly tone sharply at odds with the hidden-camera footage of grey, rainy Glasgow and its unwitting inhabitants. Johansson is truly mesmerising as the rouge-lipped siren who lures her suitors to a nondescript van to meet a horrific fate worse than death. Extracted from rather than based on Michel Faber's more linear and satirical novel, Under the Skin delivers startlingly original imagery amid the Scottish landscapes and finds queasy horror everywhere thanks to Mica Levi's pervasive electronic score. It's an experience you'll not forget in a hurry.
role | name |
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The Female | Scarlett Johansson |
The Bad Man | Jeremy McWilliams |
Andrew | Paul Brannigan |
The Deformed Man | Adam Pearson |
role | name |
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Director | Jonathan Glazer |