Not for the faint of heart, Marina de Van’s film In My Skin challenges our stomachs, hearts and minds. While Wilson squirms, Ben gets to the heart of why Eli loves sicko mode movies. Can one of the most underrated New French Extremism films secretly be deeply empathetic?

Links:

The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning by Maggie Nelson

“The Goon Squad” by Daniel Kolitz (Harpers Magazine, 2025)

Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods by Mariana Alessandri

Interviews with & articles on Marina de Van:

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Intro

00:03:23 Introducing In My Skin

00:06:13 General reactions

00:11:29 Body fascination

00:14:37 Is it horror?

00:18:34 Eli goes sicko mode

00:26:04 Director background

00:32:12 Addiction / self-discovery

00:40:38 Characters

00:46:08 Female horror

00:49:45 Splitscreens and artmaking

00:55:12 The ending

01:00:28 g00ning

01:04:44 Dinner scene

01:12:16 Additional crew on In My Skin

01:16:31 Closing ideas

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