Skin is a movie about the difficulties of life after the experience of a concentration camp and is set in the Netherlands in 1979. Robert de Hoog (brilliantly) plays Frankie, the son of a holocaust survivor; a man who struggles to leave his war experiences behind and begin to live a normal life. In being like this, he begins to frustrate Frankie, who slowly becomes more and more distant from his father as the movie progresses. Their lives are turned upside down by the hospitalisation and eventual death of Frankie's mother, who held the family together. Seeking solace, Frankie joins a group of Neo-Nazis, an action that causes his social life to break down. The film shows Frankie's slow demise very cleverly with analeptic shots of Frankie's life before he was incarcerated, as the film switches between past and present. All in all, this is an excellent film and one I would recommend to anyone who wants to learn how badly the holocaust can affect a person's life, and to see how families can be torn apart by a teenager's desire to be accepted.
Review of Skin
