THE REFLECTING SKIN
A film review by Lons Ponschock
Copyright 1995 Lons Ponschock
A film by Philip Ridley
This film is well worth seeing.
But I don't have any snappy phrases from the film to use as a hook:
The images that I got from this film were paintings: paintings I've seen and admired, or images which were familiar:
The first of these is Edvard Munch's "The Scream": a shimmering, distorted figure in the act of a primal angst: the image occurred to me in a scene with the character Cameron (Viggo Mortensen).
Second is a painting called "Christina's World" by Andrew Wyeth: a scene of the wheatfields of the plains with a single figure looking towards a barren cabin.
THE REFLECTING SKIN is one of those pictures whose dramatic content will be compromised by 'home viewing' with its distractions and lack of an audience to share the experience.
It is, however, one of the most affecting films I have ever seen. A second viewing did not change this opinion one whit.
As with other fine art films, to attempt to describe it and the power of the images would simply spoil or fail to do the film justice.
Highest recommendation.
-- lon
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