The movie The Man Who Sold His Skin, by Kaouther Ben Hania, was not shown in theaters because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Canal+ now has the movie available for streaming. In the casting, Yahya Mahayni and Monica Bellucci looked great.
A little catch-up on Canal+. When the Covid-19 virus spread in 2020, it caused a lot of theaters to close their doors. In a bad news for the industry of the seventh art, many feature films had to be pulled from theaters and instead released online. If you want to watch The Man Who Sold His Skin, you’ll have to wait a while. It was made by a Tunisian filmmaker called Kaouther Ben Hania. Since March 31, Canal+ subscribers can now watch this film, which will be shown at the Venice Film Festival in 2020, and which is starring Monica Bellucci, on MyCanal, which is part of Canal+.
The man who sold his skin
It’s a heartwarming movie called The Man Who Sold His Skin. It tells the story of Sam, a Syrian who fled the civil war and took refuge in Lebanon. To get the visa and leave for Europe with the woman who makes him fall in love, he will do everything he can. When he does this, he agrees to get his back tattooed by an artist who is very sulphurous. Over time, he will turn Sam into a piece of art. At the cost of his freedom. For Yahya Mahayni, who played the role, it was a very important one. He was named Best Actor at this year’s Venice Film Festival in the Orizzonti section.
Film based on real-life story
The Man Who Sold His Skin was also nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 2021, making it the first Tunisian film to compete in this category. It is partly based on a true story. It is that of Tim Steiner, a Swiss man who has a tattoo on his back made by the Belgian artist Wim Delvoye. It shows a Virgin with a skull on top of her head. After agreeing to sell his work for 150,000 euros in 2008, he agreed to be a part of three annual exhibitions as a piece of art and to be dismembered after he died. When Kaouther Ben Hania saw the tattoo at an art show, he was inspired by the story and decided to make a movie based on it. He entrusted World to help him find the story behind the tattoo.
