Can Go Through Skin (2009)

Very Cool!!!

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

A young woman was dumped by her boyfriend and as a result she goes totally crazy. The first thing i thought when i read this very short synopsis was "grow up!". She is a total emotional wreck, leaves the city to live in a ruin of a house and starts a very disturbed new life. We viewers are supposed to get involved into her miserable new life and the director uses sounds, internet conversations that are only partly show to us and quick camera shifting positions to do so. The woman, being totally messed up shoots several kittens and a guy after she lets them starve first and leaves a caught bird hanging in a net even when she is able to rescue the poor thing. I do not understand why directors of movies think they have a right to abuse animals to make a movie and score their artistic points.Therefore i give this pretentious movie a big fat zero.

If you are a director making a movie for a small market, and want to make a movie that is not intended for mass entertainment, you end up without any budget. "Kan door huid heen" is such a movie that was made with very little resources, and it shows. Nevertheless, through good directing, clever use of sound, and very good acting, this movie still achieves excellent quality; it brings over the experiences of the main character extremely well.While very well done with limited resources, I missed something watching this movie: Entertainment. After watching the movie I didn't feel like I had a pleasant 1 1/2 hours, more that I had watched the terrible misery of someone. While I have no problems with artistic films, they should at least to attempt to entertain the viewer in a basic way. That is completely lacking here and prevents me giving any good mark for this movie.

This film begins with a traumatic day for Marieke, its female protagonist: only hours after ending a romantic relationship she is brutally assaulted and almost drowned by a stranger. No longer able to feel safe in her urban home she moves to a large, dilapidated house in the country. Here she teeters on the brink of madness as she fantasizes about getting violent revenge on her attacker. At first her only contact with the outside world is through chat rooms, particularly with a certain man who insists that she should make her revenge fantasy a reality. The film is quite intense, at least partially due to some outstanding editing work and effective methods of capturing Marieke's interior state.The film also does an excellent job of utilizing space: the closed-in farmhouse offers a stark contrast to the open fields surrounding it. Throughout the film the visuals reflect Marieke's state of mind; the stifling close-ups of the farmhouse interiors are used to suggest her distress. As she begins to look outward and move past her trauma medium and long outdoor shots gradually become more prevalent.There are some important motifs in this film, sexuality, violence, and water all play a major role in both Marieke's injury and her recuperation. In fact the film has a nice bit of symmetry as major scenes in the beginning and end take place in a bathtub and a shower respectively; there is also the matter of a damaged drain which sets the recovery plot in motion.Anyway, this is one of the best 2009 films I've seen, it's worth your time for Rifka's Lodeizen's performance if nothing else.

I saw the movie at the Berlin Film Festival yesterday. I didn't know anything about and hadn't even read the log line. After a couple of disappointing films at this years festival this movie really thrilled me. This is definitely one of the best movies I have seen for quite some time! It is the psychological portrait of a woman who is thrown off track by two successive twits of fate and tries to cope with it on her own. It is incredibly intense and feels so real!It is absolutely captivating and kept me on the edge of my seat. The lead actress is amazing and does a great job. The directing is brilliant and so are the editing, the sound, the music... Watch It!