In MYSTERIOUS SKIN, Neil and Brian were once boys on the same Kansas little league team. Ten years later, Neil is a charismatic but emotionally guarded hustler, while Brian is a withdrawn young man convinced he was abducted by aliens. As their lives reconnect, both are forced toward the dark truth of what happened in childhood.

Rialto Recommends MYSTERIOUS SKIN is Gregg Araki at his most devastating: tender, harrowing and impossible to shake. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Brady Corbet give extraordinary performances in a film about trauma, memory and the different ways people survive what they cannot bear to face. A bold, bruising landmark of queer American cinema.