Bad boy auteur Gregg Araki shocked critics and audiences alike with his masterful adaptation of Scott Heim’s novel The Mysterious Skin. It’s a delicate mood piece about two young men who deal with molestation in very different ways. One becomes a hustler selling his youth and beauty to anyone interested while the other escapes deeper and deeper into fantasy.
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