How messed up is "The Skin I live In"?

[Droford]

first, a rather bland description:

Based on Thierry Jonquet's novel "Mygale", this revenge tale tells the story of a plastic surgeon on the hunt for the men who raped his daughter.

Now..that doesn't seem like anything we haven't seen before. But wait..it gets better..

Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's latest thriller, "The Skin I Live In," had filmgoers fleeing the theater Thursday night at its gala premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, due to some aggressively violent and disturbing content. The film, which stars Antonio Banderas and budding actress Spanish actress Elena Anaya, focuses on a mad but brilliant surgeon (Banderas) who kidnaps a man who raped his daughter. The doctor's daughter killed herself from the grief and it drives him to take very drastic measures. This is where it gets complicated and disturbing. Banderas then gives the rapist a sex change and transplants his deceased daughter's face onto his body. He later has sex with the man he has brutally experimented on and turned into a woman.

Ive seen some pretty messed up stuff, but seriously..I can't imagine who in their right mind would come up with a book with the idea "the father of a girl thats raped and then kills herself goes off to catch her rapists, give them a sex change, put his dead daughters face on the woman and the fuck the daughter/rapist mashup", let alone anyone that would want to make this into a movie and even worse anyone that would want to be in it..Is the work just not coming in for ol Antonio anymore? Seriously?

I just dont know anymore..