The Man Who Sold His Skin
By Caroline Ely April 9, 2021
Visually textured and richly shot, the dark satire has earned Tunisia’s first-ever Academy Award nod for International Feature Film.
Visually textured and richly shot, the dark satire has earned Tunisia’s first-ever Academy Award nod for International Feature Film.
Writer-director Matthew Rankin’s first feature is a raunchy look back at Canadian history through a psychedelic and psychosexual lens.
The comedy’s appealing accessibility doesn’t overshadow the social concerns that propel it, or allow it to rise beyond expectations.
Director Taika Waititi manages to maneuver through slapstick, sentimentality, comedy, and searing drama with aplomb.
Suburban soccer moms engage in a passive-aggressive competition, with their husbands and sons as unknowing victims.
The year’s Palme d’Or winner is full of dark humor, surreal twists, and genuinely jaw-dropping sequences.
The satire includes a host of first-rate comic actors, but no one really gets a handle on the material.
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