What's it about? British director Jonathan Glazer adapts Under The Skin from the 2001 novel of the same name, in which a mysterious alien posing as a beautiful woman (Scarlett Johansson) who travels around Scotland in a white van attempting to seduce lonely men, whom she lures back to a black void where they are consumed in an abyss. What makes it groundbreaking? Several actors have braved the crowded throngs of the real world in cinema history - French superstar Michel Simon famously walked the streets as a tramp in Boudu Saved From Drowning while Dustin Hoffman went drag for Tootsie - but it's a rare thing indeed when a Hollywood star sets out onto the streets without some kind of disguise. The fact that Johansson wasn't recognised for who she was while secretly filming on Under The Skin is a huge surprise - that Glazer's exceptional film is the closest things we've had to Kubrickian "pure cinema" in many years is delicious icing on an impressively made cinematic cake.