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Mysterious Skin

Mysterious Skin

2005 · 105 min · EN · NR · 7.7 (1,286 votes)
Dir. Gregg Araki · Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brady Corbet, Michelle Trachtenberg, Jeffrey Licon, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Elisabeth Shue · Music Harold Budd

“Two boys. One can't remember. The other can't forget.”

Drama

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

VIBE

This film is a deeply unsettling, melancholic journey through fractured memories and the lingering shadows of childhood trauma. It feels like a tender, yet unflinching, exploration of innocence lost and the desperate search for truth amidst profound emotional scars. A haunting, introspective experience that lingers long after the credits.

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