An Affair of the Skin (1963)
November 20, 1963Release Date
An Affair of the Skin (1963)
November 20, 1963Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.

Viveca Lindfors
Victoria

Kevin McCarthy
Allen McCleod

Lee Grant
Katherine McCleod

Diana Sands
Janice

Herbert Berghof
Max

Nancy Malone
Claire

Osceola Archer
Mrs. Cluny

Will Lee
Waiter

Helen Levitt
Producer

Ben Maddow
Producer / Director / Writer

Joseph Strick
Associate Producer

Shiko Ozaki
Music

Leroy Vinnegar
Music

Bernard Gersten
Production Manager

Verna Fields
Editor

Roger Barlow
Director of Photography

David Shore
Director of Photography
Media.

Details.
Release DateNovember 20, 1963
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 42m
Filming LocationsNew York City, United States
Genres
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An Affair of the Skin is a 1963 drama film written and directed by Ben Maddow. It is a complex story of the romantic entanglements of its several characters as seen through the eyes of a black woman photographer. Shortly after its release, the film was harshly reviewed in Time and The New York Times. Woody Haut's more recent characterization is more sympathetic:...a worthy, if not altogether successful, attempt at being an American art movie, a hodgepodge of influences, from Italian Realists, Antonioni and Bergman to US social conscience films and documentarists like Robert Flaherty. Written, produced and directed by former documentarist and Hollywood scriptwriter Ben Maddow, the film was, for the most part, shot on the streets of New York, and memorable for its sensuousness, its street-level camera-work and use of natural light.
Maddow is reported as feeling that the initial release of An Affair of the Skin had been rushed for financial reasons. In 1973, 10 years after its initial release, Maddow re-edited and released it again under the title Love As Disorder. As described by John Hagan, "An offscreen narration by the photographer was added to establish her as an observer: a participant in the action, but also a caustic chronicler of it. As in much of Maddow's work, inner disorder is seen against a background of social unrest as described in a highly imagistic manner by a person who has both emotional involvement and critical detachment."