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No Evidence Just A Smell Of Sex And Violence!
2005-11-13
Jill Fitzpatrick (Susie Porter), private eye, is hired by the parents of Mickey, a young poet, to find their missing daughter. The daughter turns up dead, and meanwhile Jill has become passionately involved with femme fatale Diana (Kelly McGillis), Mickey's poetry teacher. Jill splits her time between encounters with Diana (whose husband creepily supports the affair) and trying to find Jill's killer. The killer, however, has other ideas.
The film spends much time poking fun at some of modern poetry's more egregious pretensions, but unfortunately is guilty of many of the same crimes. It is often too elliptical for its own good, and leaves us with the impression that Jill is massively incompetent: we are to believe, it seems, that she only watches a crucial evidence tape in bits and pieces. McGillis is good as Diana, but towers a good foot over Porter, making our PI seem much more waif than butch, pseudo-hardboiled narration notwithstanding. Not much here for special features. There's a trailer, and the menu plays a short bit of music through once. Put this down to a nice try. Interesting, but not completely successful. It has things to say about poetry, dangerous sex games, and murder, but doesn't tie all three together as well as it should. And we need a much more convincingly tough PI.
Good erotic thriller is somewhat eroded by pretense
2003-05-04
Based on the book by Dorothy Porter, THE MONKEY'S MASK is a watchable but also rather pretentious "erotic" mystery.When a literature student Mickey (Abbie Cornish) goes missing, the girl's parents hire lesbian PI Jill Fitpatrick (Susie Porter- I'm not sure if she's any relation to the author) to try and locate their daughter. The only evidence of her last appearance is a videotape of Mickey reading a sexually explicit feminist poem, which will offend prudes, but which personally I found quite amusing. They're just words, after all. To try and piece together the clues as to Mickey's whereabouts Jill interviews the girl's lecturer Diana (Kelly McGillis) who has actually been encouraging her students to write like that. I wish my teachers had been that cool. Pretty soon Diana becomes the prime suspect. However Jill finds herself attracted to Diana; who is a straight married woman, and soon the pair begin an elicit affair which puts the whole case in jeopardy. This Australian film is a bit pretentious, as with a lot of "art" movies, but THE MONKEY'S MASK does manage to keep viewers watching with its plot twists and tricky camerawork. It gets a few demerit points for the amount of awful poetry in the film, but on the plus side there are numerous lesbian scenes between McGillis and Porter. DVD extras include a short film by the movie's director, Samantha Lang, a Dorothy Porter interview and a reading from the book (which I found boring), as well as cast and crew bios and samples of songs from the movie's soundtrack. THE MONKEY'S MASK is a good movie, but personally I found the poetry irritating. But that's just me, so if you enjoy and appreciate poetry, you'll probably raise my rating by 1 star. I'm just an uncultured chump anyway.
very erotic
2002-10-28
frankly, I just wanted to see this film for its eroticism, which I heard was incredible. but the story is actually a pretty entertaining one, albeit slow at times. i expected little, got more than i thought, but still, this flick is an easy rental at best. those are my two cents....
Painful Dialogue, Predictable and Slow
2002-09-17
What a mess of a movie that likely had good intentions at the start..The dialogue is painful and cliche, the movie is slooow, the story predictable...an average mystery (thus makes it somewhat worth seeing...as was the organization of the film, though too sloow), it has an underlying lesbian theme, but the women had no chemistry,zero, had it not been that their clothes were off, you'd think they were just aquaintances....I don't reccommend this film too highly..friends came over my home and saw it, and were dissappointed as I was to show it (I warned them) It was nice to see Kelly McGillis playing the bisexual predator english professor, every young coed's fantasy..but even McGillis was held hostage by the material, primarily the screenplay...Best to rent..
Monkey Business
2002-07-08
A dissapointment. Sadly, neither of these actresses were wearing masks in this film.What in the hell happened to Kelli McGillis? Don't expect to see anyone even closely reminiscent of the sensual Top Gun actress of long ago. McGillis is simply wooden in this role. Susie Porter is somewhat of a toad who appears to be wearing the same outfit throughout the movie's entirety. The acting is poor, the frequency of obscene language is distracting, the storyline is silly and the actresses chemistry is as romantic as a mud sandwich. Don't waste your time with this one or you'll end up feeling like a monkey.
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