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Summary Seeking a retreat where they can salvage their struggling relationship, young couple Leyla (Mala Emde) and Tristan (Jonas Dassler) travel to a remote island at the invitation of Leyla’s childhood friend Stella, where it soon becomes clear that what the island offers is more mysterious than a simple vacation. Leyla and Tristan join anothe...

Directed By: Alex Schaad

Written By: Dimitrij Schaad, Alex Schaad

In Theaters Now
  • 2024
  • Unrated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 43 m
  • 2024
  • Unrated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 43 m

Skin Deep

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 7 Critic Reviews
81
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 9 User Ratings
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Summary Seeking a retreat where they can salvage their struggling relationship, young couple Leyla (Mala Emde) and Tristan (Jonas Dassler) travel to a remote island at the invitation of Leyla’s childhood friend Stella, where it soon becomes clear that what the island offers is more mysterious than a simple vacation. Leyla and Tristan join anothe...

Directed By: Alex Schaad

Written By: Dimitrij Schaad, Alex Schaad

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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0% Mixed
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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100% Positive
7 Reviews
0% Mixed
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91
Jan 11, 2024
Schaad really ensures that we’re seeing beyond the surface. We’re experiencing the characters, their respective journeys, and their somber realizations that some incongruities can’t be fixed with a Band-Aid.
By Jared Mobarak FULL REVIEW
90
Feb 1, 2024
What does love really mean? Skin Deep gives an answer: that real love is an act of radical imagination, of working to understand what it feels like to be another person. In reality, we can’t just swap bodies to find out — but love beckons us to try anyhow.
By Alissa Wilkinson FULL REVIEW
90
Jan 11, 2024
Alex Schaad’s spiky, good-looking debut feature takes a clever concept and develops it into a witty, provocative exploration of identity, gender fluidity, sexuality and the pursuit of happiness.
By Allan Hunter FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 2, 2024
Skin Deep is the type of quietly ambitious film that never forgets about the personal while immersing us in vast ideas about the underpinnings of identity itself. It is a poetic and profound gem of an experience you wouldn't dare swap for anything else.
By Chase Hutchinson FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 2, 2024
Alex Schaad’s feature debut “Skin Deep” is a stripped-down sci-fi drama that takes its time to explore the social and romantic ramifications of its simple premise.
By Monica Castillo FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 2, 2024
It’s not unusual for such high-concept films to indulge in a thorny and fascinating second act only to find itself grasping for a more defined conflict in the third, and that’s essentially what happens here, as the broad philosophical mysteries take Leyla down a rabbit-hole that might be too deep for her to ever climb out.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
75
Jan 29, 2024
Though as fresh and conceptually far-reaching as a David Cronenberg film, it traffics in body ambivalence more than body horror, striking an eerie, wistful tone.
By William Repass FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Mixed or Average Based on 9 User Ratings
4.6
44% Positive
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22% Mixed
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33% Negative
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Production Company Walker Worm Film, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), Donndorffilm, ARTE, CinePostproduction
Release Date Feb 2, 2024
Duration 1 h 43 m
Rating Unrated
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Awards

Les Arcs European Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Seville European Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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