Jonathan Glazer has hardly been the most prolific of filmmakers over the last 15 years. In 2000 he gave the gangster movie a surreal Spanish spin with Sexy Beast, and in 2004 he made the deeply disturbing Birth, in which a young boy tries to convince Nicole Kidman that he’s the reincarnation of her dead husband.
But that’s been in in terms of features. Which might not be a bad thing, as you get the impression that Glazer is the kind of filmmaker who only goes to work when he genuinely has something to say.
And he clearly has much on his mind with Under the Skin, which seems to be about an alien doing some pretty unpleasant things to the men of Glasgow. But dig a little deeper and you find a tale of compassion, of evil, of understanding, and at its core a film about what it means to be human.
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