Cold Skin

2017

1h 46m

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6.3/10

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A young man who arrives at a remote island finds himself trapped in a battle for his life.

Directors

Xavier Gens

Writers

Jesús Olmo(screenplay by)

Albert Sánchez Piñol(book by)

Eron Sheean(screenplay by)

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David Oakes

Ray Stevenson

Aura Garrido

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Friend

Gruner

Aneris

Senegalese

Captain Axel

Naval Officer

New Weather Official

Portuguese

Burley Russian

Scotsman

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Directors

Xavier Gens

Writers

Jesús Olmo(screenplay by)

Albert Sánchez Piñol(book by)

Eron Sheean(screenplay by)

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David Oakes is one of those actors regularly seen in lengthy historical television adaptations, but rarely making any decent appearances on the bg screen. In this clever and stylish adaptation of Piñol's novel, he plays a young man (with no name, known only as "Friend") deposited on a remote island as a weather monitor. He is teamed up with the rather eccentric "Gruner" (Ray Stevenson) and soon their rather testy relationship is being regularly challenged by their need to defend their lighthouse home each night from an army of curiously aggressive marine mammals. The mystery deepens when we discover that "Gruner" has one of them as a part time lover that he treats pretty appallingly. As the daily carnage continues unabated, "Friend" tries to find out why these attacks happen and to try and find some sort of solution. It's quite an odd concept; the story lacks structure in any conventional sense. It isn't just that they don't know why the creatures are attacking, we don't either. Their bewilderment is our's too; and coupled with the remoteness and starkness of the surroundings it actually all builds eerily and quite compellingly to a rather decent conclusion. Jesús Olmo has adapted the novel sparingly and Xavier Gens allows much of the, at times brutal and violent, imagery do the work. Certainly worth watching.

Geronimo196727 Mar, 2022