Second Skin (1999)
Second Skin (1999)
WEB-Dl 1080p | MKV | 1920x1080 | x264 @ 3039 Kbps | 100 min | 2,44 Gb
Audio: Spanish AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subtitles: English, Spanish
Genre: Drama, Romance
WEB-Dl 1080p | MKV | 1920x1080 | x264 @ 3039 Kbps | 100 min | 2,44 Gb
Audio: Spanish AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subtitles: English, Spanish
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director: Gerardo Vera
Stars: Javier Bardem, Jordi Mollà, Ariadna Gil
Diego (Javier Bardem) is a doctor who has fallen in love with a married man with a son. Against the advice of his boss and best friend, he continues his affair with Alberto (Jordi Mollà). The consequences of this affair profoundly alter not only the two men's lives, but also that of Alberto's wife Elena (Ariadna Gil).
Excellent acting elevates Second Skin to earnest heights of heartfelt melodrama in contemporary Madrid. It's a Spanish soap opera in the most intelligent sense, inviting comparison to the intimate passion plays of Pedro Almódovar and Eric Rohmer. Director Gerardo Vera's approach is more conventional, despite the fact that this modest tale of marital discord involves an unhappy wife, whose suspicions are only slightly mistaken. Instead of another woman, her husband is having an affair with a man. He's tormented by his genuine love for his wife, child, and gay lover, and his inability to choose between them.
This is a dramatic, very realistic story about the internal strife of a bisexual man, torn between his beautiful wife and child and his desire for romance with a Gay surgeon. Well photographed and directed with excellent music. Excellent beach scenery. Explicit sex scenes are well done. The emotional pain of the 'bisexual' man (more likely a Gay man who married to please his parents and conform to societal pressures) is very graphically and honestly portrayed. The damage that his refusal to deal with his identity crisis causes both his wife and his lover is also honestly shown. Javier Bardem is excellent as the surgeon and Adriana Gil as the wife is stunningly beautiful.
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Second Skin (1999)
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