Plastic surgeon Nigel Mercer says Pedro Almodóvar's film about a deranged plastic surgeon is absolutely brilliant
I take my hat off to Pedro Almodóvar: this film about a deranged plastic surgeon is absolutely brilliant. My wife was so disturbed after watching it that she started asking me some concerned questions about what my job actually involves.
Antonio Banderas plays the surgeon, Robert Ledgard, to perfection. Almost all the Spanish plastic surgeons I've met are exactly like him: sophisticated, with slicked-back hair, BMWs, huge country estates, and a penchant for wearing black tie. We British surgeons like to think we're equally suave, but we don't tend to slick our hair back. Neither do we have operating theatres in our houses, as Robert does: they're illegal in the UK, though many European surgeons do have them.
Robert is a Josef Mengele figure, obsessed with sculpting a woman in the exact image of his late wife.
I take my hat off to Pedro Almodóvar: this film about a deranged plastic surgeon is absolutely brilliant. My wife was so disturbed after watching it that she started asking me some concerned questions about what my job actually involves.
Antonio Banderas plays the surgeon, Robert Ledgard, to perfection. Almost all the Spanish plastic surgeons I've met are exactly like him: sophisticated, with slicked-back hair, BMWs, huge country estates, and a penchant for wearing black tie. We British surgeons like to think we're equally suave, but we don't tend to slick our hair back. Neither do we have operating theatres in our houses, as Robert does: they're illegal in the UK, though many European surgeons do have them.
Robert is a Josef Mengele figure, obsessed with sculpting a woman in the exact image of his late wife.
- 9/14/2011
- by Laura Barnett
- The Guardian - Film News
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