The Man Who Sold His Skin Comments

  • Stuart 2022-11-02 21:22:14

    5.5/10. Reminds me of the Palme d'Or film "The Square", which is also a combination of politics and art. For my personal reasons, I feel that the male protagonist's eyes have no drama, and the whole portrait has an empty shell. The story focuses too much on little love and love, and the naive man grabbing a woman's scene looks more naive under the political expression. What excites me a little is the appearance of patterned...

  • Maci 2022-10-31 19:06:15

    2.5 A sense of smug...

  • Kaci 2022-10-30 08:57:37

    Such an interesting subject matter is also very thoughtful. Unfortunately, the play has gone all the way to a vulgar commercial...

  • Eloy 2022-10-23 17:47:04

    The high-level refugee theme combines rich topics such as body, country, commodity and art, and contemporary art criticism. However, the practice of using a love line to run through the entire narrative of the film is relatively conventional, and it is impossible to extract a sharp point of view in a complex topic, although it ends with an intriguing plot twist. As the final five finalists selected for this year's Oscar for best international film, this once again proves how hot the theme of...

  • Tremaine 2022-10-13 14:13:36

    It feels a bit like "Square". How can it be considered art? I have been busy applying for a visa recently, so it hurts to see lovers who cannot get together due to nationality issues. Didn't like the happy ending. However, the question asked by the children who like to visit the exhibition is, "Are people from far away wearing this tattoo?" The Schengen visa is indeed a kind of tattoo in a sense, a proof of identity. As soon as a person is born, he is tattooed by his country of birth, and all...

  • Iliana 2022-10-12 18:46:27

    In order to escape from the fiery homeland and be willing to be an exhibit in the hands of the artist, to lose identity and dignity in exchange for food, clothing and stability, spectators only see the "meaning" of tattoos, but they never care about the pustules under the skin. They auction him as a human rights commodity. Still wearing terrorist filters. The movie completely exposes the hypocritical faces of the elite white leftists, and plays a new trick on the theme of European refugees. The...

  • Clemmie 2022-10-11 09:38:14

    The idea is good, and there are many interesting symbols, but the control of the film's rhythm is a bit out of balance. If a director who can better control this motif is used to shoot, it may reflect the pattern that the script wants to present in a more three-dimensional manner. However, I still like the half-sarcastic and half-documentary feel of the film. Hypocrisy not only exists in developed societies, but also in underdeveloped societies. Faced with the behavior of selling skins,...

  • Tod 2022-09-23 12:51:59

    It's hard to say where the end of the universe is, but the end of art is the alienation of human beings into commodities. The film reminds me of the Swedish film Square, which is also a satirical sketch. Refugees + landscape society + the alienation of people by consumerism, any point can blow up public opinion. However, the narrative of the film itself is not clever or even a little clumsy. The love line is basically a scumbag. Some characters appear for no reason, and the symbols are greater...

  • Kaylah 2022-09-14 12:25:27

    Give a four-star encouragement. After all, it is much easier to understand than "Square", and it skillfully integrates several popular topics in Europe - art, refugees, identity and survival, and human rights. The male protagonist is naturally worthy of the horizon. Best Male Lead Award - Bringing a simple yet complex Syrian man to...

  • Junius 2022-09-14 08:25:27

    At the end, the music is like mv... The heroine is very good-looking, and it is a bit similar to the plot of "Desperate Painter" I watched before. The storytelling is good, and I don't want to sleep after watching...

Extended Reading

The Man Who Sold His Skin quotes

  • Sam Ali: Don't take it badly, ok? fuck you.

  • Jeffrey Godefroi: Some pessimists rule that art is dead. Well, I think art has never been more alive than it is today. With my latest work I am exploring a new realm... we live in a very dark era where if you are Syrian, Afghan, Palestinian and so on, you are persona non grata, hmm? The walls rise. And I just made Sam a commodity, a canvas. So now he can travel around the world. Because in the times we are living, the circulation of commodities is much freer than the circulation of a human being. Thus by transforming him into some kind of merchandise, he now will be able, according to the codes of our time, to recover his humanity and his freedom. Now, that's quite a paradox, isn't it?

    [laughs]

    Jeffrey Godefroi: Sorry, it's not funny.

The Man Who Sold His Skin

Director: Kaouther Ben Hania

Language: Arabic,English,French,Flemish Release date: April 2, 2021