SKIN ART seems to be the work of a second-rate film school grad who's decided to try for easy money doing exploitation cinema but can't get over the idea that he's some sort of artist. Feverishly conceived but soporifically executed, this pretentious, S&M-driven skin flick wants to make a
thematic equation between art and pain. It's painful, all right, but it's not art.
A master with his tattoo needle, Will (Kirk Baltz) specializes in decorating the torsos of brand new hookers headed for Madame Cho's House of Pleasure, a bordello managed by brutal pimp Richard (Jake Weber). Will's an anguished, boozing loner who pours all his energies into his art. Indifferent
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Released:
1994
Rated:
R
Length:
88 mins