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Apr 4, 2014 · A mysterious woman lures men to their death in this science fiction film by Jonathan Glazer. The review explores the film's visual and auditory style, its themes of gender and sexuality, and its ambiguous ending.
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By Chris Tilly
Updated: Nov 24, 2018 6:52 pm
Posted: Mar 8, 2014 9:57 am
Jonathan Glazer has hardly been the most prolific of filmmakers over the last 15 years. In 2000 he gave the gangster movie a surreal Spanish spin with Sexy Beast, and in 2004 he made the deeply disturbing Birth, in which a young boy tries to convince Nicole Kidman that he’s the reincarnation of her dead husband.
But that’s been in in terms of features. Which might not be a bad thing, as you get the impression that Glazer is the kind of filmmaker who only goes to work when he genuinely has something to say.
And he clearly has much on his mind with Under the Skin, which seems to be about an alien doing some pretty unpleasant things to the men of Glasgow. But dig a little deeper and you find a tale of compassion, of evil, of understanding, and at its core a film about what it means to be human.
The result is a film that’s hard to shake after the credits have rolled. One that takes sci-fi tropes and uses them to take a long hard look at mankind and examine both the best, and the worst, of our race. And one that has us hoping that Glazer doesn’t leave it another decade before delivering his next film.
IGN praises Jonathan Glazer's film as a dark and magical tale that explores what it means to be human. The review highlights the visuals, the score, and Johansson's performance as an alien who preys on men in Glasgow.
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Apr 10, 2014 · “Under the Skin,” Glazer’s third film, offers new evidence of that promise, even if it doesn’t entirely deliver on it. As a speculative piece of fantasy and warily somber mood piece, this ...
Apr 4, 2014 · Disguising herself as a human female, an extraterrestrial (Scarlett Johansson) drives around Scotland and tries to lure unsuspecting men into her van.
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Apr 3, 2014 · Scarlett Johansson as an extraterrestrial femme fatale cruising the streets of Glasgow in Jonathan Glazer’s cerebral sci-fi horror fantasy “Under the Skin” is an indelible personification of...
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Apr 11, 2014 · A true piece of experiential storytelling. The premise of Glazer's film, based on the Michel Faber novel, is sketched with the roughest of outlines. After pilfering clothes from a young...
Apr 4, 2014 · A genuinely weird and haunting little SF/horror/art flick that does get under one's skin. It stars Scarlett Johansson as an alluring but deadly creature of some kind. She roams around dull sections of urban Scotland in a plain van, picking up solitary men and doing something very strange to them.
