Int’l Critics Line: Todd McCarthy On Tunisia’s Oscar-Shortlisted ‘The Man Who Sold His Skin’
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deadline.comThe doings of the international art world often seem arcane and over the top, but never moreso than as depicted in The Man Who Sold His Skin.
This is a madly dramatic and engrossing melodrama about a political refugee whose unique predicament bundles with it issues pertaining to personal and political identity, the Middle East quagmire, romantic rejection and the outer limits of art world presumption and extravagance.
Tunisia’s shortlisted submission in the International Feature Oscar race is a very tasty couscous of fine ingredients and flat-out entertaining enough to warrant significant international exposure.The sharp filmmaking skills neatly dovetail with the audacity of the storyline, in which Ben Hania takes her hapless hero on a
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