The Reflecting Skin (1990) | Trailer | Viggo Mortensen | Lindsay Duncan | Jeremy Cooper

As mysterious deaths plague a small prairie town in 1950s Idaho, eight year-old Seth (Jeremy Cooper) comes to believe that Dolphin Blue (Lindsay Duncan), the reclusive English widow living next door, is a vampire. Seth’s worst nightmares come true when his older brother Cameron (Viggo Mortensen) returns home from military service and falls in love with the widow. Could he be her next victim?
Featuring cinematography by Oscar-nominee Dick Pope (Mr. Turner), THE REFLECTING SKIN marked the haunting directorial debut of Philip Ridley and has been celebrated as an instant cult classic since its premiere at Cannes in 1990.
Written and Directed by Philip Ridley
Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Cooper

[@Eprosis]

"Innocence can be hell."
What a classic line.

[@amyyoung2804]

Some of the scenery as the fields and countryside remind me of a Van Gogh landscape, or a technique used by Belgian artists. Film is strange, forbidding, dark and frightening. Love it

[@LinuxUser00]

It's very captivating! Apparently the fields were painted!

[@truthiskey8625]

This movie is an unrated masterpiece

[@thingfish000]

PG-13?

[@alexgavin6920]

Absolutely I just watched it again and it still holds up

[@tedmcgee7363]

so many of them

[@thehurrytheharm]

This movie reminds me of a cross between Malick's Days of Heaven and Lynch's Blue Velvet but through the eyes of a child. Really bizarre and beautiful

[@etramour]

this is a pure genre of "southern gothic". It is difficult to imagine a more accurate hit under her canon.
In second place is a mixture of social drama, thriller and psychological horror, but from an oppressive atmosphere.
I was very impressed with the film, this is the kind of art I'm looking for. The first 20 minutes were not smooth, then it dragged on. A very strong picture, full of symbolism, music, dialogues - everything will spin in step with the waltz of doom.
I don’t think that this is an “art house”, I found the director’s explanation: this is the summer of the end of the childhood of one child, but these memories are already in his head in the future, knowing that, the boy will understand later. That is, the film is a mixture of memory and the subconscious of a guy, so this psychedelic touch is even brilliant.

[@rostamr4096]

I remember this film, just amazingly strange...

[@renan.csmaia]

I watched today: underrated MASTERPIECE!!!

[@orphanoforbit7588]

"underrated" 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@bettybagwell3712]

I wondered why the boy didn't tell the sheriff about the boys in the black car.

[@cassreader1991]

Just saw this. 10/10 highly recommend

[@catherinephilippin3115]

A masterpiece !

[@HamzaElMasry-yd1um]

Masterpiece

[@elpoo]

that's me in my first film role at 2:08 (on the left)

[@lovesdramas]

This movie opened my eyes to things I didn’t know I could open. To add to that, I also loved the way this movie showed how harsh and horrid homophobia was in the 50s. This movie was absolutely beautiful. I rarely cry from movies, but I found myself tearing up for this one.

[@miacgcvampiros]

Masterpiece!

[@langelodidio-goaldo1105]

Pellicola davvero stupenda, sceneggiatura strana, particolare e interessante, quindi davvero stupenda e davvero stupenda per me come valutazione è 8,5.

[@scottmckenzie9426]

Trailer gives away too much. Enjoyed the film a lot!

[@renan.csmaia]

Viggo looks here exactly like in GREEN BOOK.

[@filmnightpodcast]

So the boys @ Film Night Podcast had some very differing views of The Reflecting Skin when they reviewed it for their latest podcast! Why not take a listen and hear their thoughts? We have a teaser here ----> ua-cam.com/video/BIf2b3iswdo/v-deo.html

[@destroymalefeminists]

p o d c a s t i s g a y

[@marshaarbi]

thanks

[@captain_eclectic]

Finally!!

[@russellthompson9271]

Any movie involving brutal killing of an innocent animal or in this case, amphibian, should be banned.

[@gerdbenn4475]

Finally a 2K-restoration! Too long we had to bare with mediocre transfers to DVD and BR. Its a stunning masterpiece full of hauntingly beautiful pictures.

[@travelnomad2128]

Weird movie. Didn't like it.

[@hellblazer6584]

Ok papi.

[@lovesdramas]

Spoilers ahead:
I thought it was amazing. It was weird, but in an artsy and symbolic way showing how innocence and youth is a gift, but also a curse and brutal. It was a wonderfully betrayed film on childhood innocence and how a child perceives the darkness the world has to offer around them far differently from that of a young adult or full adult’s prospective. We assume children aren’t effected by these things, but in truth they are. They just don’t process it the same way. Trauma is different to a child. To the kid in the movie for example, looked at the deaths of his father and friends as almost a game or a story. He didn’t see it the same way as we would. He was still coming to terms with death and what love is. We might think he isn’t effected after seeing how he thinks death is just a game, but this is again proven wrong as we see his screaming at the end of the film symbolizing his pain that he doesn’t know how to express. It’s the trauma and pain no adult understands. No adult thinks it is even there. The movie then abruptly ends just like youth and innocence as he is forced to grow up at only around 8 or 9. Beautiful film and shows tragedy through a child’s perspective. Absolutely genius.

[@fromtexas2734]

Boring, stupid movie. Don't waste your time with it.

[@hellblazer6584]

Nobody ask your opinion papito.

[@saxonde68]

Who is going to take advice on art from a person called “From Texas”? 😂 May as well start a culinary blog and rate world cuisine while calling yourself “From South Dakota”

[@marsoblivi0n945]

Says every dumb person when they encounter real art.