No surprise at all, this, given that Sony Pictures Classics has distributed Pedro Almodóvar’s last five features in the US, but the specialty outfit has already started beefing up next year’s prestige lineup by acquiring the Spanish auteur’s next outing, “The Skin That I Inhabit.”
We first reported on the film, which is currently in production, in May. (Back then, it was billed as “The Skin I Live In,” which is a considerably less clunky translation than the one they’re currently going with, I must say.) As much as any new Almodóvar piques my interest, this one has me particularly intrigued for two reasons.
First, it’s the director’s first collaboration with former male muse Antonio Banderas in 20 years, and second, it’s reportedly a Gothic-flavored revenge thriller — a welcome shift in direction after “Broken Embraces” found him in something of a creative holding pattern.