Pieles (2017)

AKA: Skins
Directed by: Eduardo Casanova
Starring: Ana Polvorosa (Samantha), Macarena Gómez (Laura), Itziar Castro (Waitress), Eloi Costa (Cristian), Carmen Machi (Claudia), Antonio Durán Morris (Simón), Ana María Ayala (Vanesa), Candela Peña (Ana), Jon Kortajarena (Guille), Secun de la Rosa (Ernesto), Carolina Bang (Cristian’s psychiatrist)
Country: Spain; Effed Up European Films
Language: Spanish (Eng Subs); Effed Up Spanish Films
Runtime: 01:17:25
Genres: Scars-Body Modification, Dwarf, Obesity, Old-Young, SelfHarm, Girl-on-girl, Misc Paraphilias (Mermaid)

About:
Vignettes from the lives of irregular folk, most of whom are uniquely malformed, who get connected to each other at different points.

There’s a young woman with her ass where her mouth should be, a pedophile who abandons his wife when she’s about to deliver their child and who instead visits a brothel that hosts myriad perversions such as a young girl with opaque skin rather than eyes. This kid then continues to work there well into her 20s when she’s oft-visited by a fat waitress. There’s also a dwarf on a TV show, a couple with deformed/burnt faces, and the pedophile’s now-grown son who wants to be a mermaid.

Almost to subvert the idea of the gross and ugly are visual aesthetics that try to be picture-perfect, making for an interesting watch, despite the shallow storylines.