#yahya mahayni

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The Man Who Sold His Skin (2021)

His own body turned into a living work of art and promptly exhibited in a museum, Sam, a Syrian refugee, will soon realize to have sold away more than just his skin.

Directed By: Kaouther Ben Hania

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The Man Who Sold His Skin (2020) dir. Kaouther Ben Hania

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The Man Who Sold His Skin

directed by Kaouther Ben Hania, 2020

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THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS SKIN

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The subject has spawned so many newscasts, books, movies and TV shows that it takes real imagination to find an invigorating angle on such a well-worn and difficult theme.

That's why I was surprised and delighted by The Man Who Sold His Skin, a funny, touching and pointed film that's been nominated for the Oscar for Best International Feature. Made by the Tunisian writer-director Kaouther Ben Hania, it weaves together satire and humane political awareness to create an original fable about art, privilege, freedom and identity.

The winning newcomer Yahya Mahayni stars as Sam Ali, a handsome young Syrian madly in love with his girlfriend, Abeer (Dea Liane). But when Sam's thrown into prison by the Assad regime for a trifle, he's forced to escape to Lebanon. He's burning to get to Belgium where Abeer has moved with the Syrian diplomat she's been married off to, but he can't get a visa.

Sam's situation seems hopeless until he sneaks into an opening at a Beirut gallery hoping to sponge free food. Once there, he's caught by a glamorous art-dealer who introduces him to Jeffrey Godefroi, an internationally renowned artist played by Belgian star Koen De Bouw. Jeffrey specializes in glib work that sells for millions and seems to embody Oscar Wilde's definition of a cynic as one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Over drinks, Jeffrey proposes a deal that will let Sam get to Abeer. Using Sam's back as his canvas, Jeffrey creates a large tattoo depicting the Schengen Visa, the document that allows free movement between European countries. In exchange, he gives Sam a cut of the profits and — because Sam is now a pricey work of art — gets him into Belgium. There Sam spends his time being displayed in a museum and looking for Abeer. He finally appears to be free.

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The Man Who Sold His Skin الرجل الذي باع ظهره‎ (2020),   directed by Kaouther Ben Hania;

its plot was inspired by belgian contemporary neo-conceptual artist Wim Delvoye's

Yahya Mahayni as Sam Ali; Dea Liane as Abeer; Koen De Bouw as Jeffrey Godefroi; Monica Bellucci as Soraya Waldy; Wim Delvoye as insurance broker

Nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards:

- Best international feature film of the year -

"The Man Who Sold His Skin" Tunisia

Wim Delvoye  

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The Man Who Sold His Skin (L'Homme qui a vendu sa peau), Kaouther Ben Hania (2020)

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The Man Who Sold His Skin https://bit.ly/3qX6l2O “Sometimes I think I”m Mephistopheles,” guyliner-wearing conceputal artist Jeffrey Godefroi (Koen De Bouw) tells Sam (Yahya Mahayni) near the beginning of The Man Who Sold His Skin. Sam is the Syrian refugee Godefroi is about to sign up to be a living art work, and Godefroi’s declaration is as clear a reference as you need … Read more

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L'uomo che vendette la sua pelle, di Kaouther Ben Hania (2020)

L’uomo che vendette la sua pelle, di Kaouther Ben Hania (2020)

di Andrea Lilli – Fanno strani scherzi, le parole del cuore. Per un “Ti amo!” perdiamo la testa, sfidiamo la sorte, giriamo il mondo quanto è tondo, ci giochiamo corpo e anima, non abbiamo più dubbi: puntiamo tutto lì, su quel punto esclamativo. Quando in treno la bella Abeer cede all’istinto e gli confessa di amarlo, Sam non si contiene dalla gioia. “Amici”, grida euforico agli sconosciuti…

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The Man Who Sold His Skin

Recensie The Man Who Sold His Skin ★★★1/2 - op 16-4 de openingsfilm op @MoviesMatter en later in 2021 in de bioscoop Balanceert op het randje van het toelaatbare. #TheManWhoSoldHisSkin @CineartNL @HerrieFilmTV

De dramafilm The Man Who Sold His Skin gaat over Sam, die Syrië is ontvlucht en van zijn geliefde werd geschieden. Een kunstenaar biedt hem de mogelijkheid om naar haar af te reizen, maar dan moet hij wel zijn rug beschikbaar stellen. Wat wij van The Man Who Sold His Skin vinden, lees je in onze recensie. (more…)

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THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS SKIN / الرجل الذي باع ظهره‎ 2020 | dir. Kaouther Ben Hania

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Films of 2021: The Man Who Sold His Skin (dir. Kaouther Ben Hania)

Grade: C-/D+

Would’ve been great as a subplot in The Square but yyyyyyikes.

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Top 10 Robe Moments (that I experienced for the first time) of 2021:

Yahya Mahayni in The Man Who Sold His Skin (2020) dir. Kaouther Ben Hania, costume design by Randa Khedher

The entire male cast of Evil Under the Sun (1982) dir. Guy Hamilton, costume design by Anthony Powell (pictured: Roddy McDowall)

Rutger Hauer in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) dir. Fran Rubel Kuzui, costume design by Marie France

Deborah Kerr in The Chalk Garden (1964) dir. Ronald Neame, costume design by Julie Harris

John Gielgud in Prospero’s Books (1991) dir. Peter Greenaway, costume design for the robes by Emi Wada

Peter Cushing in Horror Express (1972) dir. Eugenio Martín, costume design by Andrés Fernández

Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke in Granada Holmes (various), costume design by Esther Dean and Kate Turner

All of the VIPs in Squid Game (2021) dir. Hwang Dong-hyuk, costume design by Jo Sang-Gyeong

Rod Steiger in No Way To Treat a Lady (1968) dir. Jack Smight, costumes/wardrobe by Theoni V. Aldredge and George Newman

John Gielgud and Robert Morse in The Loved One (1965) dir. Tony Richardson, costume design by Rouben Ter-Arutunian

Honorable mentions: Martin Sheen’s trans robe from an episode of Two and a Half Men that I’ll never watch, and this scene between Rod Steiger and Jack Palance in The Big Knife

Runners-up: Peter Cushing in The Skull, Rod Taylor in Sunday in New York, Rod Steiger in Waterloo, Sam Neill in Reilly: Ace of Spies, Emmanuelle Béart in La Belle Noiseuse, Vittorio De Sica in Blood for Dracula

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My Favorite Films and Performances of 2020

“I wish I could’ve seen it on the big screen.”

It was a strange year, and even stranger year of movie watching. In 2020 I saw only one of my top films in a theater, which is crazy (like much else over these past months). But the experience of keeping up with the movies this year was a reminder that great filmmaking can transcend the specifics of the viewing experience. In your living room, in bed, projected onto the side of a garage, streaming on Twitch, broken up into multiple sittings, maybe even on your phone (desperate times)… if doesn’t matter as long as it connects with you. A great film has the power to soothe and transport, to alter your perspective, to re-wire your brain. So while I didn’t get on a single airplane last year, I definitely went places. And I’m grateful for these changes of scenery. For the time-travel as well; last year in my house, we found great comfort in revisiting a bunch of old favorites. It was also an opportunity to finally watch a number of those older films that had someone evaded us… a year of catching up, now or never. We were members of a weekly movie club for some months — that was cool. Another pleasant silver lining was the emergence of virtual film festivals, which have been a fantastic opportunity. I hope that they can continue in some form when this pandemic is in the rearview. Because, you know, getting to Park City is a real schlep. All this to say: like you, I’ll always remember 2020. In this truly crummy year, the movies really helped.

I’m including some of the film festival stuff that’s coming out a little later, because the boundaries between 2020 films and 2021 films feels blurry to me without proper theatrical releases.

TOP 5, loosely ranked. I love these deeply.

1. LOVERS ROCK, Steve McQueen

2. NOMADLAND, Chloe Zhao

3. ANOTHER ROUND, Thomas Vinterberg

4. TIME, Garrett Bradley

5. MARTIN EDEN, Pietro Marcello

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The rest of the Top 25, in alphabetical order. I loved these.

À L’ABORDAGE, Guillaume Brac

BACURAU, Kleber Mendonça Filho

COLOR OUT OF SPACE, Richard Stanley

THE FATHER, Florian Zeller

FIRST COW, Kelly Reichardt

I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS, Charlie Kaufman

JASPER MALL, Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb

LUXOR, Zeina Durra

ALEX WHEATLE / EDUCATION / MANGROVE / RED, WHITE AND BLUE, Steve McQueen

THE NEST, Sean Durkin

NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS, Eliza Hittman

NEW ORDER, Michel Franco

THE PAINTER & THE THIEF, Benjamin Ree

THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD, Armando Iannucci

POSSESSOR, Brandon Cronenberg

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN, Emerald Fennell

RELIC, Natalie Erika James

SAINT FRANCES, Alex Thompson

SOUND OF METAL, Darius Marder

THE TRUTH, Hirokazu Koreeda

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I also enjoyed (some more than others):

Apples, The Assistant, Babyteeth, Bad Education, Black Bear, Blow the Man Down, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Butt Boy, The Climb, Da 5 Bloods, Deerskin, Emma, The Father (Bulgaria), Greed, His House, The Hunt, I Used to Go Here, I'm No Longer Here, Impetigore, The Intruder, The Invisible Man, Kajillionaire, La Llorona, Let Them All Talk, Lost Girls, The Man Who Sold His Skin, Mank, Never Gonna Snow Again, News of the World, One Night in Miami, Palm Springs, Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time, Rebecca, She Dies Tomorrow, Shirley, Slow Machine, Sorry We Missed You, Soul, Spree, Straight Up, A Sun, Swallow, Tenet, Tesla, Tommaso, The Traitor, The Trip to Greece, True History of the Kelly Gang, Uncle Frank, Under the Open Sky, The Vast of Night, Vitalina Varela, Wendy, The Whistlers, Wildland, Young Ahmed

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And these documentaries!

American Murder: The Family Next Door, The American Sector, Assassins, Beastie Boys Story, The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, Bloody Nose Empty Pockets, Boys State, Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero, Circus of Books, Class Action Park, Collective, Crip Camp, David Byrne's American Utopia, Dick Johnson is Dead, Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds, The Go-Go's, Gunda, Miss Americana, MLK/FBI, The Mole Agent, Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado, My Psychedelic Love Story, Mystify: Michael Hutchence, Narrowsburg, On the Record, Other Music, Sisters with Transistors, Spaceship Earth, The Way I See It, Whirlybird

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And these shorts:

Bye Bye Body (which I edited), Fit Model, Friday Night Pizza for Daddy, Hard Cracked the Wind, The Human Voice, John Was Trying to Contact Aliens, Michael's Preference West, What Did Jack Do?, World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime

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My favorite performance of the year:

Frances McDormand as Fern in Nomadland

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Favorite ensembles:

À l’abordage, Another Round, Bad Education, Babyteeth, Bloody Nose Empty Pockets, Blow the Man Down, Emma, First Cow, Kajillionaire, Let Them All Talk, Lovers Rock, Mangrove, Mank, One Night in Miami, The Personal History of David Copperfield, Promising Young Woman, True History of the Kelly Gang

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More memorable (and in some cases under-discussed) performances:

Christopher Abbott as Colin Tate in Possessor and as Gabe in Black Bear

Idir Ben Addi as Ahmed in Young Ahmed

Riz Ahmed as Ruben Stone in Sound of Metal

Daniel Algrant as Kelvin Kranz in Let Them All Talk

Maria Bakalova as Tutar Sagdiyev in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Haley Bennett as Hunter Conrad in Swallow

John Boyega as Leroy Logan in Red, White and Blue

Rob Brydon as Rob Brydon in The Trip to Greece

Jessie Buckley as Young Woman in I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Nicolas Cage as Nathan Gardner in Color Out of Space

Salif Cissé as Chérif in À L’abordage

Sheyi Cole as Alex Wheatle in Alex Wheatle

Cleopatra Coleman as Trina in The Argument

Carrie Coon as Allison O’Hara in The Nest

Michael Angelo Covino as Mike in The Climb

Willem Dafoe as Tommaso in Tommaso

Charles Dance as William Randolph Hearst in Mank

Catherine Deneuve as Fabienne Dangeville in The Truth

Katie Findlay as Rory in Straight Up

Sidney Flanigan as Autumn in Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Johnny Flynn as George Knightley in Emma

Julia Garner as Jane in The Assistant

Robbie Gee as Simeon in Alex Wheatle

Chris Giarmo as himself in David Byrne’s American Utopia

Betty Gilpin as Crystal Creasey in The Hunt

Ethan Hawke as Hank in The Truth

Kris Hitchen as Ricky Turner in Sorry We Missed You

Anthony Hopkins as Anthony in The Father

Jonathan Jules as Dennis Isaacs in Alex Wheatle

Sandra Guldberg Kampp as Ida in Wildland

Joe Keery as Kurt Knuckle in Spree

Udo Kier as Michael in Bacurau

Orion Lee as King Lu in First Cow

Delroy Lindo as Paul in Da 5 Bloods

Peter Macdissi as Walid "Wally" Nadeem in Uncle Frank

Matthew Macfadyen as Wilcock in The Assistant

George MacKay as Ned Kelly in True History of the Kelly Gang

Yahya Mahayni as Sam Ali in The Man Who Sold His Skin

Luca Marinelli as Martin Eden in Martin Eden

Tuppence Middleton as Sara Mankiewicz in Mank

Mads Mikkelsen as Martin in Another Round

Wunmi Mosaku as Rial in His House

Elisabeth Moss as Cecilia Kass in The Invisible Man

Kelly O'Sullivan as Bridget in Saint Frances

Shaun Parkes as Frank Crichlow in Mangrove

Robert Pattinson as Neil in Tenet

Paul Raci as Joe in Sound of Metal

Kadeem Ramsay as Samson in Lovers Rock

Gayle Rankin as Marissa in The Climb

Tanya Reynolds as Mrs Augusta Elton in Emma

Tyler Rice as Detective Russell Fox in Butt Boy

Andrea Riseborough as Hana in Luxor

Cecilia Roth as Marta in The Intruder

William Sadler as the Grim Reaper in Bill & Ted Face the Music

Kenyah Sandy as Kingsley Smith in Education

Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn as Martha Trenton in Lovers Rock

David Strathairn as David in Nomadland

Michael Stuhlbarg as Stanley Edgar Hyman in Shirley

Swankie as Swankie in Nomadland

Tilda Swinton as Woman in The Human Voice

Kristin Scott Thomas as Mrs. Danvers in Rebecca

Steve Toussaint as Ken Logan in Red, White and Blue

Alec Utgoff as Zhenia in Never Gonna Snow Again

Jairaj Varsani as young David Copperfield in The Personal History of David Copperfield

Ben Whishaw as Uriah Heep in The Personal History of David Copperfield

Sharlene Whyte as Agnes Smith in Education

Letitia Wright as Altheia Jones-LeCointe in Mangrove

Ramona Edith Williams as Frances in Saint Frances

Kôji Yakusho as Masao Mikami in Under the Open Sky

Youn Yuh-jung as Soon-ja in Minari

Helena Zengel as Johanna Leonberger in News of the World

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Favorite pre-2020 films I saw for the first time in 2020:

Blood on the Moon, But I’m A Cheerleader, Crooklyn, Cure, Daughters of the Dust, The Death of Dick Long, Deep Cover, The Draughtsman's Contract, Eyes of Laura Mars, Give Me Liberty, Greener Grass, Hardcore, High Hopes, The Last Party, Long Day's Journey into Night, Maiden, One Day Pina Asked, Persona, Right Now Wrong Then, Right On!, The Seventh Victim, Slightly French, Synonyms, Tammy and the T-Rex, Variety, The Watermelon Woman... and a tip of the hat to Coppola's new The Godfather Part III recut, The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone

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2020 Venice Film Festival — Winners

COMPETITION Golden Lion for Best Film: “Nomadland,” Chloé Zhao Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize: “New Order,” Michel Franco Silver Lion for Best Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, “Wife of a Spy” Best Screenplay: “The Disciple,” Chaitanya Tamhane Coppa Volpi for Best Actor: Pierfrancesco Favino, “Padrenostro” Coppa Volpi for Best Actress: Vanessa Kirby, “Pieces of a Woman” Special Jury Prize: “Dear Comrades,” Andrei Konchalovsky Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor: Rouhollah Zamani, “Sun Children”

HORIZONS Best Short Film: “Entre tú y milagros,” Mariana Safron Best Screenplay: “I Predatori,” Pietro Castellitto Best Actor: Yahya Mahayni, “The Man Who Sold His Skin” Best Actress: Khansa Batma, “Zanka Contact” Special Jury Prize: “Listen,” Ana Rocha de Sousa Best Director: Lav Diaz, “Lahi, Hayop (Genus Pan)” Best Film: “The Wasteland,” Ahmad Bahrami

LION OF THE FUTURE Luigi De Laurentiis Award for Best Debut Film: “Listen,” Ana Rocha de Sousa

VIRTUAL REALITY COMPETITION Best VR: Michelle and Uri Kranot, “The Hangman at Home: An Immersive Single User Experience” Best VR Experience: Kiira Benzing, “Finding Pandora X” Best VR Story: Fan Fan, “Killing a Superstar”

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La #Tunisia 🇹🇳 ha scelto come proprio rappresentante per gli #Oscar2023 per la categoria #BestInternationalFilm #UndertheFigTrees (#Souslesfigues) diretto da #ErigeSehiri, presentato nella sezione Quinzaine des Réalisateurs all'ultimo Festival di Cannes. TRAMA: Tra i fichi, durante il raccolto estivo, giovani donne e uomini coltivano nuovi sentimenti, si corteggiano, cercano di capirsi, stringono e fuggono da relazioni più profonde. TRAILER: https://youtu.be/-uhuhviOuxs FESTIVAL: Munich Film Festival, Quinzaine des Réalisateurs (Festival di Cannes) OSCAR 2022: lo scorso anno fu scelto Golden Butterfly di Abdelhamid Bouchnak che però non ottenne la candidatura. Nella storia degli Oscar la Tunisia ha conquistato una sola nomination: nel 2021 con L'uomo che vendette la sua pelle, con Yahya Mahayni e Monica Bellucci diretto da Kaouther Ben Hania che a sorpresa riuscì ad entrare nella cinquina finale. #OscarsSubmission #95rdOscars #95rdAcademyAwards #Oscars2023 #InternationalFeatureFilm https://www.instagram.com/p/CiScSg9sXJa/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=