'The Skin I Live In', by Pedro Almodóvar, enters post-production

With a budget of ten million euros, the new film by the director from La Mancha will be commercially released in Spain next September. After filming in Galicia, Madrid and Toledo, the film has now entered the post-production phase.

As “intense drama that sometimes leans toward noir, sometimes toward science fiction, and sometimes toward horror,” director Pedro Manchego has classified his new work, The skin I live in, although he has acknowledged that as usual "my films have always been difficult to classify in terms of genre, because I usually mix several, and when there is one that predominates I do not respect all the rules."

After filming in Santiago de Compostela and in the spectacular Pazo de Oca, in A Estrada, and later in Madrid and a cigarral a few kilometers from Toledo, The skin I live in It has now entered post-production ahead of its premiere next September.

With a budget of ten million euros, the new production has the collaboration of the Xunta de Galicia and the Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha.

Starring Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet and Roberto Álamo, it also has the participation of Blanca Suárez, Eduard Fernández, José Luis Gómez, Bárbara Lennie, Susi Sánchez, Fernando Cayo and Teresa Manresa.

In addition to the reunion with Antonio Banderas and Marisa Paredes, Almodóvar has once again collaborated with regular technicians in his filmography: José Luis Alcaine as director of photography, his faithful José Salcedo as editor and his essential musician Alberto Iglesias.

The skin I live in presents a story and is loosely inspired by the novel Tarantula by Thierry Jonquet. Since his wife was burned to death in a car accident, Dr. Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating new skin with which he could have saved her. Twelve years later he managed to grow it in his laboratory, taking advantage of the advances in cell therapy. To do this, he will not hesitate to cross a door that until now has been strictly forbidden: transgenesis with human beings. But that won't be the only crime he will commit...