The Reflecting Skin (film)
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| Directed by | Philip Ridley |
| Produced by | Dominic Anciano |
| Written by | Philip Ridley |
| Starring | Viggo Mortensen Lindsay Duncan |
| Music by | Nick Bicât |
| Cinematography | Dick Pope |
| Distributed by | BBC Miramax Films |
| Release date(s) | 9 September 1990 |
| Running time | 95 min. |
| Language | English |
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The Reflecting Skin is a surreal 1990 film about a young child growing up in rural Idaho in the 1950s. The movie is directed by Philip Ridley, and features Viggo Mortensen and Lindsay Duncan.
The film weaves elements of the grotesque, vampirism, child sexual abuse, and religious zealotry throughout its narrative about the perceptions and fantasies of an impressionable pre-adolescent boy and his friends.
[edit] Awards
At the 1990 Locarno International Film Festival, Ridley won three awards, C.I.C.A.E. Award, the FIPRESCI Prize, and Silver Leopard. At the 1990 "Sitges" Catalonian International Film Festival, Lindsay Duncan won the Best Actress award and Dick Pope the award for Best Cinematography. At the 1990 Stockholm Film Festival, Ridley received the FIPRESCI Prize.
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