The Man Who Sold His Skin

The Man Who Sold His Skin

  • Director: Kaouther Ben Hania
  • Countries of origin: France, Tunisia, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Turkey
  • Language: Arabic, English, French, Flemish
  • Release date: April 2, 2021
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: El hombre que vendió su piel
  • The Man Who Sold His Skin is a film directed by Kaussell Ben Haniyeh. 

    Details

    • Release date April 2, 2021
    • Filming locations Belgium
    • Production companies Cinétéléfilms, Tanit Films, Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion GmbH

    Box office

    Gross worldwide

    $216,507

    Movie reviews

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    • By Natalie 2022-12-22 23:46:31

      Advanced refugee themes or cliché love stories?

      This can be regarded as a high-level refugee theme . The story is free from the dark and depressing or pitiful undertones of most similar works. The Tunisian female director boldly combines refugees and contemporary art with novel and...

    • By Vaughn 2022-11-01 07:37:25

      Wipe your prudish demeanor

      Every time I watch a movie about refugees, I will be depressed for a long time. As a small ant, the weak sense of powerlessness always makes people unable to lift their spirits. Talking about Syria, what is left of the memory of it? If there is interest, the war will never be absent. When a Syrian refugee becomes the canvas for an artist's painting, he is no longer a human being, but a million-euro trade in human skins that is auctioned off by the rich Europeans. Civilized people call it...

    • By Sandra 2022-10-30 03:33:21

      The ending is quite a failure, but the intention is desirable

      Write your own feelings without reading reviews. The most intuitive feeling is that the plot was written very plainly, and it was omitted without further discussion in the place where it should be dig deep. But if you play Samsung and feel that the result of this proposition and performance should not only be Samsung, then it should be Samsung and a half. The plot is flawed, and the shots are not very good. I prefer a quiet perspective of viewing artworks. The sound bonus points are more,...

    • By Chris 2022-08-29 23:40:02

      A casual talk about the image of the artist and the female assistant

      The idea of ​​consuming refugees as works of art could have been explored in more depth. But there are some shallow tastes. Throughout the entire love line of the film, it feels a bit redundant and too cliché. In contrast, the attitude of the artist and his assistants towards refugees has less interaction with the male protagonist. Personally, this part of the performance should be the focus of the film's irony.

      From the lines in the film, the artist has...

    • By Demario 2022-08-29 22:45:46

      notes

      The film begins with the artist's manifesto: I turn him into a commodity, a canvas, so that he can cross the walls of national borders. Now the flow of commodities is more free than the flow of human beings, and I have turned him into a commodity, so that he can restore his humanity and freedom according to the rules of the times in which we live. This is so contradictory, right?

      Indeed, the film shows the movement of the refugee (crossing national...

    User comments

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    • By Eduardo 2023-09-20 20:04:16

      It has something in common with "Square", and it can be regarded as a good work among this year's Austrian...

    • By Arden 2023-09-16 08:44:09

      Pulled hips back and...

    • By Adrienne 2023-09-07 17:32:37

      The male protagonist insists on art for the sake of "the dignity of the common people". In order to accuse the "dark world", the artist makes a lot of money by showing his political works everywhere. Whether it is art or politics, in this real world, everyone is getting what they need. The perfect romanticism at the end dragged down the score of the whole film, thinking it was Shawshank....

    • By Pearlie 2023-08-26 06:25:48

      The reversal at the end is interesting, and the VISA tattooed on the back is a major metaphor. The topic of discussion is higher than "Youth of You", and it is estimated that it will win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in...

    • By Ambrose 2023-08-12 04:10:46

      "Self-owned", the obvious "typo" in the Chinese subtitles translated by Huajian Feng Lishi, is instead the key word in this cleverly conceived...

    Movie 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.