Under the Skin

Under the Skin

• Director: Carine Adler
• Based on novel: no
• Cast: Samantha Morton, Claire Rushbrook, Rita Tushingham, Christine Tremarco
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Samantha Morton – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Elizabeth the Gold Age, The Libertine, In America, Morvern Callar, Jane Eyre
• Claire Rushbrook – Doctor Who, Secrets and Lies
• Rita Tushingham – Being Julia, Doctor Zhivago, Girl with Green Eyes 
• Why?  Samantha Morton
• Seen:  9 August 2019

 Iris (Morton) is resentful of her pregnant sister Rose (Rushbrook) who she believes is favoured by their mother (Tushingham). She loves her boyfriend but feels they never talk. It is discovered that their mother has a brain tumour and will soon die.

And then the mother dies.

With quiet close-up detail we see how the sisters deal with their loss and their stormy relationship. Rose retreats into family, Iris seeks solace in sex with strange men.

Morton is superb (as always) as a young woman falling apart and crashing. Rushbrook is good too.

It’s very depressing though.

2 ½ * of 5