Furthermore, the best movie villas serve as direct extensions of their owners' psyches. This is most famously exemplified by Xanadu in Citizen Kane . Though technically a sprawling estate, it functions as the ultimate villa: a monument to one man's ego and his inability to connect with others. Similarly, the modernist concrete villa in Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In is sterile, impenetrable, and cold, mirroring the mental state of the surgeon who operates within its walls. In these films, the villa does not just house the villain or the hero; it explains them. If the walls of the best villas could talk, they would tell a story far more articulate than the dialogue of the characters.
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