It’s exactly what makes the arrival of Jonathan Glazer’s brazenly original Under the Skin such a shock to the system. Starring Scarlett Johansson as an alien creature trolling the streets for human prey, it’s a mesmerizing and haunting film that refuses to concern itself with traditional genre or even narrative conventions. After pilfering clothes from a young dead woman, Johansson sets off in a white van to pick up random men from the streets of Scotland.
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