Gregg Araki’s film adapatation of the Scott Heim novel Mysterious Skin has opened at the Tribeca Film Festival. I didn’t have a chance to see it but there’s a review up and a report on the Q&A at Cinematical:
“The world the film creates is so alive, even when Araki dips into his special brand of surrealism, that it threatens to dissolve the screen. This is a testament to the actors (especially Gordon-Levitt), who at no point feel unlike real people. Neil and Bryan start at two distant emotional extremes but organically come together; despite the wriggle-in-your-seat viscerality of certain images, the film’s final setpiece works some kind of cathartic magic.”
