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À fleur de peau

Original title: Underneath
  • 1995
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 39m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
4K
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À fleur de peau (1995)
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A recovering gambling addict attempts to reconcile with his family and friends but finds trouble and temptation when caught between feelings for his ex-wife and her dangerous hoodlum boyfrie... Read allA recovering gambling addict attempts to reconcile with his family and friends but finds trouble and temptation when caught between feelings for his ex-wife and her dangerous hoodlum boyfriend.A recovering gambling addict attempts to reconcile with his family and friends but finds trouble and temptation when caught between feelings for his ex-wife and her dangerous hoodlum boyfriend.

  • Director
    • Steven Soderbergh
  • Writers
    • Don Tracy
    • Steven Soderbergh
    • Daniel Fuchs
  • Stars
    • Peter Gallagher
    • Elisabeth Shue
    • Alison Elliott
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.1/10
    4K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Steven Soderbergh
    • Writers
      • Don Tracy
      • Steven Soderbergh
      • Daniel Fuchs
    • Stars
      • Peter Gallagher
      • Elisabeth Shue
      • Alison Elliott
    • 40User reviews
    • 33Critic reviews
    • 69Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Peter Gallagher
    Peter Gallagher
    • Michael
    Elisabeth Shue
    Elisabeth Shue
    • Susan
    Alison Elliott
    Alison Elliott
    • Rachel
    William Fichtner
    William Fichtner
    • Tommy
    Adam Trese
    Adam Trese
    • David
    Joe Don Baker
    Joe Don Baker
    • Hinkle
    Paul Dooley
    Paul Dooley
    • Ed
    Shelley Duvall
    Shelley Duvall
    • Nurse
    Anjanette Comer
    Anjanette Comer
    • Mrs. Chambers
    Dennis Hill
    • Guard Tom
    Harry Goaz
    Harry Goaz
    • Guard Casey
    Mark Feltch
    • Guard George
    Jules Sharp
    • Hinkle's Assistant
    Kenneth D. Harris
    • Mantrap Guard
    Vincent Gaskins
    • Michael's Partner
    Cliff Haby
    • Turret Operator
    Tonie Perensky
    Tonie Perensky
    • Ember Waitress
    Randall Brady
    • Ember Bartender
    • Director
      • Steven Soderbergh
    • Writers
      • Don Tracy
      • Steven Soderbergh
      • Daniel Fuchs
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    6eugenia_loli

    Weird & twisted thriller/drama

    I find 'The Underneath' to be a 'weird' movie, and I don't mean 'weird' in a good way. It's weird in a negative way, it just doesn't make sense in some parts, like the stranger in the hospital, or the hidden agendas of everyone in this movie.

    I think the scriptwriter wanted to make this a cool-twisted thriller, but it came out as a mashed up incoherent drama.

    Peter Gallagher was good and William Fichtner even better, but they were not enough to save this movie from being boring and incoherent. Too bad Elisabeth Shue didn't have more scenes and we didn't get to see more of Adam Trese's character which left more questions than answers.

    I suggest you watch this movie only if you have nothing better to do.
    5paul2001sw-1

    Road to nowhere

    These days, Stephen Soderbergh has a reputation as a director capable of pleasing arthouse critics and mainstream fans alike. Personally, I'm unconvinced of his claims to greatness even now; but it's certainly clear, whatever its absolute merits, how "Underneath", which dates from 1995, is lacking in slickness compared with the director's subsequent works, which it nonetheless resembles in form if not in competence.

    Basically, this is a bank-heist thriller, but shot in a very tricksy style. To list a few of the devices employed, we get colour-filtered lenses, flashbacks (confusing because the main character has a big grey beard in the chronologically earliest scenes, and thus looks younger when supposed to be older), disjunctions of speech and image (used more successfully four years later by Soderbergh in "The Limey"), edgy-camera work, contrived (though sometimes powerful) scene-framing, and the pseudo-documentary time stamps that flash up on screen almost at random. In fact, it's less of a mess than the length of this list suggests; but it never seems natural. The viewer always feels that he is being set up. What is not clear is why.

    The real problem is that it is very hard to care about any of the characters. Soderbergh hints at motivation, but fails to follow through. One could argue that the film is trying to be intelligent, leaving the viewer to fill in the gaps. The problem here is not that this is difficult (except at the very end) but that it happens too often - there's more gap than substance, the script plays with itself instead of fleshing out. With no real insight into human nature here, the end result is not so much bleak as pointless.

    There are many worse, more stupid films than this. But trying to be clever does not in itself make a great movie. These days Soderbergh does clever without trying. Whether that makes his recent work better, or simply better-disguised, is an interesting question.
    6youdontsmellbad

    Competent first half with disappointing payoff

    I saw this film as a part of a school course on film appreciation, focusing mostly on film-noir. It built slowly with a fascinating story, and honestly I was intrigued by many of the sequences especially the scene where the main character watches the football game and the rendezvous under the bridge.

    I was also interested in all of the supporting characters like elizabeth shue's role and the smarmy brother.

    The action toward the end built up to a climax that would bring it all together. And, the most I could say for the climax was that it did. But it also spiraled into a conventional, predictable, and altogether disappointing ending. I walked away unhappy with the whole experience.

    This was the first time I was disappointed with Soderbergh's work, so for a more satisfying experience, in a similar genre, see The Limey.
    Keno27

    Not too good.

    With two sets of flashbacks, count them two sets of flashbacks interspersed throughout the movie the last one catching up to where the movie begins in the present, it just makes a garbled mess. Kind of like the last sentence.

    I like Peter Gallagher and Elizabeth Shue, but she had such a small role and he couldn't save the convoluted mess that movie just seems to be told out of sequence like it is.

    The cinematography is nice if that's any consolation! I bought my copy at Walmart for $5.50 and I can't honestly say I'll ever watch it again. I can't recommend it, but I won't condemn it either.
    6lastliberal-853-253708

    when I think about trying with you again, I have no idea if it's a moment of strength, or a moment of weakness.

    Not really noir, as it is in color, so we can call it neo noir and be done with that.

    Michael (Peter Gallagher), the prodigal son, returns home for his mom's wedding after being exiled for some past trouble. The flashbacks throughout the movie show us what happened, but it really doesn't matter.

    What matters is the fact that he takes up again with his old flame, Rachel (Alison Elliott), who is now married to a local hood (William Fichtner), a fact she neglected to tell him.

    To get out of trouble with the hood, he agrees to do an armored car robbery. His own brother (Adam Trese) suspects him.

    One of director Steven Soderbergh's early works, it will not blow you away, but it will entertain you.

    I suspect the ending will leave you furious.

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    • Trivia
      Not allowed to co-sign the screenplay with his name for legal reasons, Steven Soderberg used the name "Sam Lowry", the anarchist character played by Jonathan Pryce in Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985).
    • Quotes

      words on mantelpiece at Whispering Pines: A man is as big as the things that annoy him.

    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: A Pyromaniac's Love Story/While You Were Sleeping/Destiny Turns on the Radio/New Jersey Drive/Underneath (1995)
    • Soundtracks
      Why Ya Wanna Do Me
      Written by Fred LeBlanc

      Performed by Cowboy Mouth

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    • Release date
      • April 10, 1996 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Underneath
    • Filming locations
      • Austin, Texas, USA
    • Production company
      • Populist Pictures
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $6,500,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $536,023
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $141,345
      • Apr 30, 1995
    • Gross worldwide
      • $536,023
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    Tech specs

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    • Runtime
      • 1h 39m(99 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • DTS
      • DTS-Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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