The story of Mysterious Skin is rather simple. The two main characters experience child abuse and mature very differently. This is not a coming of age story as much as it is a character study of ...

Narrated by both characters as young men, "Mysterious Skin" traces how their lives intersected as kids, and what led to the mysteries they're living with as adults. The director, Gregg Araki ...

Based on Scott Heim’s novel, director Gregg Araki’s “Mysterious Skin” probes the disturbing ... Narrated in turn by both characters, the main thrust of the story comes as the two boys rediscover one ...

That’s one of the beautiful things about the movie. Those characters do carry it.” By the end of “Mysterious Skin,” Neil and Brian are drawn together inexplicably at first until the ...

Director Gregg Araki was in tears when he finished reading Scott Heim’s novel “Mysterious Skin” and decided ... s poignant beauty by keeping the characters’ childhood experiences as ...

He owns the character and comfortably lives in its world. Gordon-Levitt’s superb acting and Araki’s voyeuristic and raw directing bring the story into a realm that it all feels plausible — whether we ...

Adapted from Scott Heim's coming-of-age novel by Prince Gomolvilas, the stage version of "Mysterious Skin ... for any and all character woes. Part of “Skin’s” potency derives from ...

opening narration, Mysterious Skin Over the last decade ... because there are never any facets to the character beyond a behavior that cannot be stopped. But Araki's film reveals that the problems ...