Skin & Bone

excellent film

It's a good movie but I did not like the ending how she made it looks like she care but only herself and I'm also glad Harry found peace when he died so it's a okay movie

This film that explores the lives of three hustlers at different points in their careers is dark and atmospheric. The bleak black-and-white photography is used to great effect and the images of the pimp Ghislaine endlessly circling the streets of Los Angeles in her car as she sets up "dates" for her stable strongly symbolize the emotional bleakness of the lives of the hustlers, particularly Harry. Much of the film was improvised over the course of a year, with director Lewis writing some material to loosely link together the improvised material. An incautious viewer might look at the disjointed effect this has on the film as a defect but instead it should be viewed as representative of the disjointed lives the hustlers, again especially Harry, are living. Harry is almost schizophrenic in his insistence in separating his job as a hustler from his attempts to get acting work. He looks upon his work with clients with a sort of twisted honor, an honor that being asked whether he does nude scenes (a coded request that he submit sexually to the casting director) is not hypocritical but instead fits perfectly with his character. While the penultimate scene is a little contrived, the film's final scene again makes perfect sense when viewed through the eye of the characters involved. This is a complex film but even if you're not into it for the complexity the performances and the attractive cast make it worth watching.

A disappointing movie, full of logical inconsistencies. First and foremost, the mysterious madam whose way of dealing with wayward merchandise is to rub them off. What? She kills her own golden geese? Second: the directors obvious fixation with anal sex--including at least two totally gratuitous "rape scenes, both happening to the "top" male character. Third, an ending that makes you want to shoot the director--a total cop out in the most classic homophobic tradition. And i could even add a fourth, a character that does naked cleaning while covering his jewels with one hand, whereas seconds later he is supposedly administeringto the sexual needs of his paralyzed client!!!!

I like Everett Lewis' movies. His characters are always quirky, kind of at the edge of society and the actors he chooses to play their parts, are well chosen and provide great dialogue. I've watched this thing two times, and my response is that it's kind of a mess. No clear story lines about the three male prostitutes, doesn't really add up to much, and like a foreign art movie that is supposed to have some deep meaning, to the ordinary observer, it looks like a piece of crap.It is difficult to have any sympathy for any of the characters here. No one makes any real connections with each other, and the film ambles along much like three semi-connected nightmare dreams sequences involving people who are on the road to nowhere. A much better choice in terms of the subject matter here would be Andy Warhol's Heat. Skin and Bone could have been a much better film. Would like to see Everett Lewis redo it today and see what he could come with. His later films are much better.

A not so old movie about the male escort business. David Arquette had a very small role as a would be escort. Unfortunately, he was far more good-looking than the main actors.

I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS MOVIE UNLESS YOU HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUBJET MATTER AND HAVE A STRONG STOMACH. AT TIMES IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT TO WATCH.

a very good film of type.excellent work by director / actorsyou will enjoy this one

Ne dépensez pas un centime pour ce film. Rien d'intéressant et beaucoup de temps perdu; La photo couverture est très bien faite, dommage que le reste ne suive pas. 6/20 suivant ma cotation.