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Cercle intime

Titre original : The Monkey's Mask
  • 2000
  • 12
  • 1h 33min
NOTE IMDb
5,1/10
1,7 k
MA NOTE
Kelly McGillis and Susie Porter in Cercle intime (2000)
CrimeMysteryThriller

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA lesbian private detective dives head first into murder, manipulation and the consuming power of sex.A lesbian private detective dives head first into murder, manipulation and the consuming power of sex.A lesbian private detective dives head first into murder, manipulation and the consuming power of sex.

  • Réalisation
    • Samantha Lang
  • Scénario
    • Anne Kennedy
    • Dorothy Porter
  • Casting principal
    • Susie Porter
    • Kelly McGillis
    • Abbie Cornish
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  • NOTE IMDb
    5,1/10
    1,7 k
    MA NOTE
    • Réalisation
      • Samantha Lang
    • Scénario
      • Anne Kennedy
      • Dorothy Porter
    • Casting principal
      • Susie Porter
      • Kelly McGillis
      • Abbie Cornish
    • 26avis d'utilisateurs
    • 12avis des critiques
    • 49Métascore
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
    • Récompenses
      • 3 victoires et 4 nominations au total

    Vidéos1

    Trailer
    Trailer 1:27
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    Photos5

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    Rôles principaux29

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    Susie Porter
    Susie Porter
    • Jill Fitzpatrick
    Kelly McGillis
    Kelly McGillis
    • Professor Diana Maitland
    Abbie Cornish
    Abbie Cornish
    • Mickey Norris
    Brendan Cowell
    Brendan Cowell
    • Hayden
    Jim Holt
    • Bill McDonald
    Bojana Novakovic
    Bojana Novakovic
    • Tianna
    Jean-Pierre Mignon
    • Tony Brach
    Caroline Gillmer
    Caroline Gillmer
    • Barbara Brach
    John Noble
    John Noble
    • Mr. Norris
    Linden Wilkinson
    Linden Wilkinson
    • Mrs. Norris
    Chris Haywood
    Chris Haywood
    • Dad Fitzpatrick
    Deborah Mailman
    Deborah Mailman
    • Lou
    Marton Csokas
    Marton Csokas
    • Nick Maitland
    William Zappa
    William Zappa
    • Detective Sergeant Wesley
    Charlotte Rose Regan
    • Cerebral Girl
    Johnny Lee
    • Tai Chi Instructor
    Sara Nunn
    • Comforting Policewoman
    David Wood
    • Brian, the poet
    • Réalisation
      • Samantha Lang
    • Scénario
      • Anne Kennedy
      • Dorothy Porter
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    Avis des utilisateurs26

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    6michaelRokeefe

    The smell of sex and violence.

    Titilating sex scenes make up for the disjointed story line. While investigating a missing-person case, a female detective(Susie Porter)is sidetracked when she enters a lesbian affair with a married professor(Kelly McGillis). Totally nude love scenes are interesting. Porter is a more convincing lesbian than private detective. And it is nice to see McGillis sans clothing. Also in the cast are:Abbie Cornish, Jean-Pierre Mignon and Marton Csokas. Cornish is very alluring and demands attention through her character's poetry. Strong sexual content and graphic dialogue are a plus for this crime drama.
    jay_thompson680

    AUSTRALIAN NOIR

    Dorothy Porter's book "The Monkey's Mask" was a groundbreaker on numerous levels. The text was a novel constructed from poetic verse ("is it a novel or a bloody long poem"? one commentator asked). Furthermore, Porter took a harboiled detective/ noir narrative and relocated it from the streets of NY or LA to seamy inner-city Sydney. Where once we had misogynist male gumshoes(i.e. Sam Spade), Porter gave us Jill Fitzpatrick, a female detective who was also - and proudly - a lesbian.

    So how does it translate to film? Very interestingly, indeed.

    The story (for those unfamiliar) entails Jill investigating the disappearance and subsequent murder of Mickey Norris, a young Uni student whose amateurish poetry is laced with sex and death. Jill's investigation leads her into Sydney's incestuous poetry scene, and particularly into the bed of Diana Maitland, Jill's duplicituous lecturer. And that's where trouble starts ...

    Susie Porter and Kelly McGillis are brilliant as Jill and Diana respectively. There is more emphasis given here to the sexual side of their relationship than there was in Porter's text, and some of the sex scenes do, alas, border on fetishistic.

    However, I was fascinated by the way their relationship was mediated by a whole range of other factors. There is class: Diana is an uber-wealthy city dweller who dines at Darling Harbour, while Jill is a working-class woman living in a dingy caravan on Sydney's exclusive North Shore. Also, Diana is entwined in two seedy 'scenes': the poetry world, and the world of English/cultural studies academia. The seamy, incestuous, inhumane side of academia has been explored in films as diverse as Hitchcock's 'Rope' (which TMM bears a resemblance to stylistically- and that also had homosexuality as a theme) to the 1970s horror film 'Bloodsuckers' (an appropriate title for Diana). In The Monkey's Mask, Diana talks down about her students (the women in her class love 'victim poetry', apparently). When Jill tells her of Mickey's gruesome murder, Diana is more excited over her latest academic grant!

    In support, Marton Csokas was brilliant as Diana's 'kept man' Nick. He reminded me of Vincent Price's 'kept man'/ playboy in the 1944 noir classic 'Laura'. Unfortunately, the rest of the supporting cast are under-used. As Jill's father, Chris Winwood is given little to do bar totter around with a whisky bottle. Then there is the talented Deborah Mailman, wasted in a thinly-sketched role as Jill's best friend (the most she is given to do is 'come onto' her friend during a time of grief, and that - as another commentator suggested - suggests a dubious link between lesbians and sexual voraciousness. This is a link that is made absolutely concrete in Diana's character, whose evil is - in the film - largely attributed to her sexual appetite).

    Also, the movie's conclusion was too neat and polished, given all the ambiguity and uncertainty that preceded it. The ending of Porter's book wasn't nearly as cut-and-dried.

    And what was the point of Jill's closing line: "Forget the bitch"? Porter didn't mention that. Was its inclusion to comfort the (conservative, hetero, etc) viewer that the dangerous dyke relationship is over, and we can all sleep nice and easy. Worrying stuff, indeed.

    Having said that,though, Lang's 'The Monkey's Mask' is an interesting contributionto the noir genre. Stylish and sensual, with some great chemistry between the leads, it is intelligent entertainment that deserves a look.
    4Rogue-32

    I like Porter

    Caught this on cable last night and I've decided that I like Susie Porter very much - she's got an incredibly expressive face (along with her adorable body, which we get to see a LOT of) and she was thoroughly convincing as the p.i. trying to solve the murder of a teenage poet while falling in love with the poet's teacher (Kelly McGillis, not quite believable in her role but she still looked good with Porter in the bathtub). Not very well-written or directed either - it's too long, too self-conscious and too convoluted - but it does have a certain style. . .and it DOES have the very appealing and watchable Porter.
    5raymond-15

    Best to leave it in book form

    I could not find anything interesting in this film. Prose and poetry divided into chapter headings and dished up as an experimental film failed as a piece of entertainment. Let it be a lesson to other film makers.

    Don't be misled by the title. The writer chose the title before she wrote the book because she rather liked the Japanese haiku of that name. Believe me, there are no monkeys or masks, but after due consideration they might have livened up the film.

    The sex scenes were passable but with little delicacy. The writer said she had hoped for a more grubby presentation of those scenes. I could not see much point in the scene where the woman walks into a room with her panties off. Do lesbians like to advertise their pubic hair? On the positive side the cinema photography was excellent. Glimpses of Sydney harbour and its famous bridge put me in a great mood anticipating what beautiful scenes might follow. Alas! What a strange mixture.

    In one of the final scenes we see a notice warning people to take care because the Sydney Harbour rocks are slippery. I waited in trepidation because i was sure something terrible was about to take place. But no! We hear a man addressing a lesbian investigator ...."Thank you for making love to my wife; you sure put a light in her eyes".

    I'd be surprised to learn if a film like this could prove to be a profitable venture. My recommendation: AVOID!
    hodo68

    Death in Inner City Poetry Scene

    Let me state first of all that I liked this film. It revolves around a female PI who is investigating the disappearance of young student poet who is later found murdered. She becomes involved in an affair with the student's teacher who may or may not be involved in the murder. It flows quite well maybe abit slowly for some but to me this is the right pace. The movie is delineated into sections much like a poem and in some ways the lead (admirably played by Susie Porter) seems to float through this world of poetry readings, steamy love trysts and threatening phone calls a player yet somehow disassociated from it all.

    There were however some things that annoyed me a little about the whole film and while they didnt spoil it for me they nevertheless grated on me. Susie Porters character though solidly played nevertheless did not ring true to me. She is meant to be a working class ex-cop familar with the mean streets of Western Sydney now navigating her way through this bunch of artsy intellectual types. She didnt quite ring true to me - she almost seemed part of that crowd herself - her outsider status wasnt obvious to this viewer.

    I found the some of the use of nudity and sexual profanity abit try hard. What I mean by this is that it was almost abit forced.To me It looked as though it was saying look how comfortable we are in showing nudity etc,I suspect it was almost there to spice things up rather than being integral to the plot (to be fair a pretty hard line to draw on many occasions).I also found the whole characterisation of the murdered girl and her parents abit annoying. The parents are cardboard carictures of what inner city intellectuals view the suburbanites (with money) as -dull boring and clueless , & the murdered girl is portrayed as some spoilt little brat from the leafy suburbs on a parent subsidised rebellion - another cliche. I find this more than a little ironic as the subject matter of this film is likely to draw an audience (in Australia anyway) that is largely the arthouse end of the market (ie monied and educated) Anyway these points though somewhat annoying to this viewer really are only minor distractions.Overall the film is worth seeing.

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    • Anecdotes
      Gigi Edgley was unable to complete her scenes for this film because she was needed back on Farscape (1999) to film the episode "Dream a Little Dream/Re:Union".
    • Citations

      Mickey Norris: [Opening scene; standing before an audience] Love is a torture - love tortures me. Does love torture you? If it does, why are you laughing? I feel you in the room like a knife. You cut out my cunt, so why not cut out my heart? Your prick is a knife that hurts me. You grunt like a beautiful pig

      [audience laughs]

      Mickey Norris: . I wish my cunt could hurt you.

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    • Bandes originales
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      Written by Alan Wilder (as A. Wilder)

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    Détails

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    • Date de sortie
      • 15 août 2001 (France)
    • Pays d’origine
      • Australie
      • Canada
      • France
      • Italie
      • Japon
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • The Monkey's Mask
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Sydney, Nouvelle-Galles du Sud, Australie
    • Sociétés de production
      • Arenafilm
      • Asmik Ace Entertainment
      • Canal+
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    • Montant brut mondial
      • 6 831 $US
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    • Durée
      1 heure 33 minutes
    • Couleur
      • Color
    • Mixage
      • Dolby Digital
    • Rapport de forme
      • 2.35 : 1

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