After a hot, one-night stand, Julia and Manuel can't resist meeting up again, week after week for an extramarital tryst. Gradually, the connection becomes more than skin deep. That's it! No explosions, no gunfights, not even a quirky, supporting cast. Dominican actors Josue Geurrero and Eva Arias (former Miss Dominican Republic) carry the entire film on their toned shoulders, and they do a fine job.
This is, to be honest, a soft-porn, but it's not one of the ones where the muscular plumber is working on a sink when in walks the bored housewife in lingerie to offer him a glass of water. This is a real story about real people. Chilean director Matias Bize mixes some fairly graphic sex scenes with honest conversations and genuine emotion, as Julia and Manuel come to realize that their feelings for each other represent a bigger infidelity than their sexual couplings.
“En Tu Piel” is like an Off-Broadway play, with just the two actors and the one room. If it sounds very similar to the 2005 film “En la Cama,” it's because both films come from the directing/writing team of Matias Bize and Julio Rojas. “En Tu Piel” may be a little TOO similar to that earlier film, but I'll give it a pass. The acting and directing are so good that the concept is worth revisiting. Both of the actors deserve to get a lot more work, and Eva Arias especially impresses in a couple of scenes where she simply smokes and thinks about her situation, communicating volumes with subtle facial expressions. This is an erotic movie with a huge heart.
4 stars out of 5
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