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Jamie Bell, lead actor in Guy Nattiv’s feature Skin, photographed in 2019. Event photograph, not a Skin production still. Photo: Harald Krichel , CC BY-SA 4.0 . Display size adjusted; source photograph unchanged. Skin centres on a difficult question: what does leaving a violent ideology require beyond declaring that a person has changed? A visible transformation can mark a break with a former life, but it cannot undo the harm already done. The drama is most useful when those two ideas remain distinct. Guy Nattiv’s feature Skin stars Jamie Bell, Danielle Macdonald, Vera Farmiga and Bill Camp. The 2019 Haifa festival catalogue identifies it as a 2018 production, while A24’s official trailer announcement gives its US theatrical release as 26 July 2019. Bell plays Bryon Widner, whose departure from a white-supremacist group forms the basis of the drama. Official feature-film trailer Official trailer published by A24. Watch the feature-film trailer on YouTube if the embedded player i...