Pedro Almodóvar's THE SKIN I LIVE IN Original Movie Poster * Antonio Banderas * 27" x 40" Rare 2011 Mint New Condition. Large Wall Size measures 27" inches wide by 40" inches high. Original Official U.S. Advance Release Theatrical Poster for the October 2011 limited theater release of the film " The Skin I Live In ". The Skin I Live In ( Spanish : La piel que habito ) is a 2011 Spanish film directed by famed director Pedro Almodóvar, starring Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet, Roberto Álamo and Blanca Suárez, and is loosely based on Thierry Jonquet's novel Tarantula. The film was the first collaboration in 21 years between Almodóvar and his former regular cast member Banderas. The film premiered in May 2011 in competition at the 64th Cannes Film Festival. Based on Thierry Jonquet's novel Mygale ( "Tarantula" in English ), published first in French and then in English under the same title. Almodóvar described the film as "a horror story without screams or frights". The film is set in Toledo. In 2012, surgeon Robert Ledgard (Banderas) has succeeded in cultivating a skin that cannot burn, claiming he has only tested the process on mice. At his estate, which also serves as a facility for medical research and operations, he is holding a young woman (Anaya) captive with the help of his servant Marilia (Paredes). It is carnival season. While Robert is away, Zeca (Álamo), having committed a robbery, arrives in carnival costume as a tiger to ask Marilia, his mother, to hide him for a few days. He learns of the female captive. When Marilia refuses to hide him or grant him access the captive, he binds and gags her, gets to the captive, and rapes her. Robert arrives, interrupts the rape, and kills Zeca. Marilia tells the captive that she is mother to both Zeca and Robert by different men, a fact she has not shared with them. To explain what motivates Robert's experiments on the captive, she explains that Robert's wife was burned in a car crash twelve years earlier. When she saw what she looked like after the accident, "a cinder," she jumped from a window to her death. Their daughter Norma (Suárez) witnessed the suicide and required psychiatric treatment thereafter. Marilia's story segues into a flashback. It is six years earlier. Vicente (Cornet), a young man who works in his mother's dress shop, makes unsuccessful advances toward his lesbian co-worker. Norma is temporarily released from psychiatric care to attend a wedding with her father. At the reception dance, Vicente leads her into the garden and attempts to have sex with her. She screams. He hits her and flees. Robert finds his daughter, and, as she awakens, she imagines he is her rapist. She is incarcerated for more psychiatric treatment and soon commits suicide. As revenge for the rape, Robert, in disguise, kidnaps Vicente and performs sex reassignment surgery on him. He turns Vicente into a physical replication of his deceased wife. It is 2012 again. Following Zeca's attack and Marilia's explanation, Vicente, now a woman, has taken the name Vera and feigns cooperation with Robert. Fulgencio (Fernández), one of Robert's colleagues, reads a news story about a missing youth named Vicente and recognizes him as the subject of sex reassignment surgery. He accuses Robert of falsifying documents to conduct that surgery and of experimenting on Vicente. Vera arrives to support Robert by asserting her willing participation. Having gained Robert's trust, Vera kills him and then Marilia. Vera returns to the dress shop and tells her mother and co-worker that she is Vicente, now a woman. This Original Poster is printed in Brilliant Beautiful Razor-sharp 6 color production on thick advertising poster stock paper. Rare , Authentic , The Skin I Live In Original Collectible of a stylishly twisted unexpected thriller. Ready for framing or simply hang as is. Great for an Apartment or Entertainment Room , Den or Office. This is a Very Rare Original One-Sheet Movie Poster and and has been gently pre-folded at the factory and does have the small pea-size authentic ad punch-mark on the bottom corner of the poster. Will be carefully rolled in a heavy duty tube and shipped Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation / Tracking. This Original Poster is in Mint New Condition. Email with any questions before purchasing if you are unsure about something. We ONLY accept Money Orders , Cashiers Checks or U.S. Cash as payment ( we do NOT accept personal checks or online payment at all ). Please email about local pick-up , we are located in NYC in Times Square. All International Customers MUST email us before purchasing this item.
