Epress.am News from Armenia
Spanish director Pedro Almodovar has begun filming “La piel que habito” (The Skin I Live In) on Monday, a horror-thriller that reunites him with Hollywood actor Antonio Banderas, reports the Latin American Herald Tribune.
The director’s 18th film, which has a budget of 10 million euros ($12.7 million), will be shot over a period of 11 weeks at different locations in Spain – Santiago de Compostela, Madrid and Toledo.
The film, based on French crime writer Thierry Jonquet’s novel “Tarantula,” centers on a famous plastic surgeon whose wife dies tragically in a traffic accident and his efforts to produce human skin. Banderas plays the psychopathic plastic surgeon seeking brutal revenge on the man who raped his daughter.
Other cast members include Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes (who played the lead role in Almodovar’s “La Flor de Mi Secreto” (The Flower of My Secret), Jan Cornet and Roberto Alamo.