Pedro Almodóvar’s 'The Skin I Live In' and Lars von Trier’s 'Melancholia'
An Auteur Planet
By Peter Conrad
Ah, to be an auteur, with the power to impose your own kinked or crazy worldview on reality! Pleasing only yourself, you can cosmetically rejig the human species, or – if you happen to be a miserable depressive – ensure that your gloom spreads through the cosmos by decreeing a planetary collision that will exterminate all life on earth.
New films by Pedro Almodóvar and L
