Marina de Van-Gap Rating 2/10

Her father being a musicologist. She studied at the Lycée Henri IV and at the Sorbonne University where she earned a degree in philosophy. Then, in 1993 she became a student at the FEMIS, the French school for cinematic studies, where she graduated in 1996. She directed and wrote 6 short movies as well as working as an actress and a writer with fellow FEMIS student director Francois Ozon. In 2002 she made her first feature film Dans ma peau (2002) as director, writer and actress.

Marina de Van is a gap toothed French beauty that you would never suspect of making a movie so disturbing that I was nearly ill while watching it.

De Van wrote, directed and starred in the French film, In My Skin. It's the story of a young woman who after suffering some deep gashes to her leg from an accidental fall, becomes preoccupied with her body and skin, especially her wounds. It isn't long before she is incising wounds directly and aggressively into her own body.

Many have compared In My Skin to the work of David Cronenberg or the French film The Piano Teacher but In My Skin is different. While de Van claims her character is not representative of female sexuality it is impossible to ignore that this is a woman is claiming her body as her own. She won't let a doctor look at her wounds but wants to find out what her body can feel. She cannot feel like a normal person anymore and is very curious. She wants to open her body, taste it and feast on it because it belongs to her and no one can tell her otherwise. She becomes so obsessed with cutting herself she even does it under the table at an important business dinner.