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Your support makes all the difference.Ready for its premiere at Cannes, the teaser trailer for director Pedro Almodovar's El Piel Que Habito ( The Skin I Live in), starring Antonio Banderas, was released May 8.
The chilling glimpse at the film offers a peek at the eerie story of a plastic surgeon and his experiments in creating a new skin that can withstand the burns his wife suffered from after a car accident.
Footage shows a threatening confrontation between Banderas and his co-star Elena Anaya ( Mesrine: Killer Instinct) in which she attempts to escape his control.
The twisted tale is an adaptation of the 2005 novel Tarantula ( Mygale) by crime writer Thierry Jonquet, and also follows the doctor seeking revenge against the man who raped his daughter.
The film marks a departure for the director who calls it the harshest film he has written and describes Banderas's character as "a brutal psychopath," according to Indie Film's The Playlist blog.
This is the first reunion of Almodovar and Banderas, who worked together on the seminal film Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! in 1990.
The Skin I Live In also features Marisa Paredes, Fernando Cayo, Jan Cornet, and more. Previous collaborators with Almodovar include composer Alberto Iglesias, director of photography Jose Luis Alcaine and editor José Salcedo.
The film releases August 26 in the UK, September 2 in Spain, October 20 in Germany, and November 18 in France, Italy and the US.
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