‘Skin’ Trailer: Jamie Bell Is A Skinhead Who Wants A Clean Slate
Based on the true story of former Neo-Nazi Bryon Widner,SkinstarsJamie Bellas a skinhead who turns FBI informant against his white supremacist group. Set to be released by A24,Skindramatizes the story of removing Widner’s removal of his tattoos and breaking out of his white-power group that was the subject in the 2011 documentaryErasing Hate. Watch theSkintrailer below.
Skin Trailer
Written and directed by Israeli filmmakerGuy Nattiv,who this year won an Oscar for his (unrelated) short film with the same title,Skinfollows a tortured white supremacist named Bryon (Bell), who seeks to escape his life with the help of the FBI. In exchange for decoding the tattoos on his body, he undergoes 25 brutal tattoo removal surgeries. This is Nattiv’s English feature film debut which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year, played at the Berlin Film Festival, and is stopping by the Tribeca Film Festival next.
I had heard ofthe controversial receptionto Nattiv’s short filmSkin, which seemed like it tackled sensitive issues of racism in America with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, but learning that his feature filmSkinis unrelated to that short is encouraging. While his short filmSkinseemed to approach American race relations from the perspective of an outsider who doesn’t fully comprehend the depths of the issue, this feature-lengthSkinat least is based on real events. Bell looks like he is giving a powerhouse performance in the role, and the trailer certainly is promising. Not to mention the talented cast, which includesDanielle Macdonald,Vera Farmiga,Daniel Henshall,Louisa Krause, andBill Camp.
Here is the synopsis forSkin:
After a difficult childhood drives him into the grasps of a white supremacist gang, Bryon (Bell) tries to escape to a new life, all the while questioning whether he’s capable of undoing — and repenting for — the evil he’s done
