Stranger IN MY Own Skin

A brilliant and pretty obscure look at the flip side of swinging sixties London. Narrated by a rather sardonic and sometimes scathing James Mason, we are taken on a tour of the underbelly of London. The film is artfully edited and offers straight factual history with real life characters/street performers/vendors who seem very unaware of the camera. The documentary has extremely surreal and quite tragic scenes by turn and encapsulates a London undocumented in the media of the time.

Marie (Caroline Ducey), a grade-school teacher whose cold-fish male model boyfriend, Paul (Sagamore Stevenin), won’t have sex with her. She repeatedly tries to arouse and engage him, and the more she does, the more he pulls away. She’s a self-loathing glutton for emotional abuse, and he gets his greatest pleasure, seemingly, in denying her. He insists upon keeping her around and she insists on staying, which makes it a pretty sad arrangement all the way around. Ducey and SteveninEventually, because she isn’t getting quite enough degradation at Paul’s hands, she seeks sexual fulfillment elsewhere…