“Watching this film feels like a genesis moment - of sci-fi fable, of filmmaking, of performance - with all the ambiguity and excitement that implies.”
When a beautiful stranger (Scarlett Johansson) arrives in Glasgow and promptly starts combing the streets in search of men, her lonely young pick-ups initially can’t believe their luck. But Johansson is an alien predator in human form, whose interactions with human existence in all its complexity begins to change her/it... Based on Michel Faber's 2000 novel of the same name, Under the Skin is another utterly unique masterpiece from the brilliant Jonathan ‘Zone of Interest’ Glazer.
