One of the most enticing films that may well play Cannes this year - and, yes, one of the more frightening ones, too - is
Pedro Almodovar's reunion with
Antonio Banderas,
The Skin I Live In.
The film is based on a novel called
Tarantula that is nominally about a plastic surgeon who takes revenge upon the man who raped his daughter. But the novel sounds a lot more uncomfortable than a simple revenge film, because the ...