The Skin of the Teeth

2018

DramaThriller

When Josef arrives at John's apartment for a date, their prickly energy slowly gives way to genuine chemistry. But after swallowing a pill with mind-bending effects, Josef quickly slides helplessly down a rabbit hole of temporal sleight-of-hand, plunged into a surreal interrogation of everything he is.

Rating

5.5
8 votes

Popularity

0.1202

Origin & Countries

US | en |

Production

Runtime

80 min.

Status

Released

Release: 10/23/2018

Credits

The Skin of the Teeth

Matthew WollinDirector

The Skin of the Teeth

Pascal Arquimedes

The Skin of the Teeth

Donal Brophy

The Skin of the Teeth

Tom Rizzuto

The Skin of the Teeth

Chuja Seo

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Reviews

CinemaSerf

4/15/2023

5 / 10

"Josef" (Pascal Arquimedes) arrives at the apartment of his date "John" (Donal Brophy) and is a bit nervous. Going upstairs to fetch his telephone from his jacket on the bed, he espies a tray of chemical goodies and pops a pill. Not long afterwards, he starts to experience some nausea then we are all taken on an hallucinogenic trip as "John" appears to die and the police proceed to question him - themselves in various guises (including a woman wearing a rabbit mask) - trying to establish what is true and what is not. I'm not really fan of surrealist cinema, and although the effort here from Arquimidedes is proficient, the whole thing rather uncomfortably marries the predictable relationship between gay people, randomness and drugs. I lost interest fairly quickly with this over-long fantasy that tries hard to stimulate intellectually but really only delivers a sort of messy, very wordy, psychologically confused drama about a man about whom I couldn't care less. If you wander into a stranger's house and pop one of his pills, well - you kind of deserve all you get. It is imaginative, I'll give it that - but just not for me.

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