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La maschera di scimmia

Titolo originale: The Monkey's Mask
  • 2000
  • VM14
  • 1h 33min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
5,1/10
1685
LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
Kelly McGillis and Susie Porter in La maschera di scimmia (2000)
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA 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.

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    • Samantha Lang
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Anne Kennedy
    • Dorothy Porter
  • Star
    • Susie Porter
    • Kelly McGillis
    • Abbie Cornish
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    5,1/10
    1685
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Samantha Lang
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Anne Kennedy
      • Dorothy Porter
    • Star
      • Susie Porter
      • Kelly McGillis
      • Abbie Cornish
    • 26Recensioni degli utenti
    • 12Recensioni della critica
    • 49Metascore
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    • Premi
      • 3 vittorie e 4 candidature totali

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    Interpreti principali29

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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
    • Regia
      • Samantha Lang
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Anne Kennedy
      • Dorothy Porter
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    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.
    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!
    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.
    4=G=

    Stylish junk

    "The Monkey's Mask" tells of a young Aussie woman who is 99.9% lesbian and 0.1% private detective charged with finding the killer of a young woman poet. A naive flick which has some style but precious little reason to watch or keep watching and no reason to care about any of the characters, "TMM" is mostly pretentious hogwash with people behaving in ways people only behave when they're acting in a movie. The film is annoyingly divided into chapters, the characters are boring, poetry and lesbian themes don't ring true, and the whole flick is about as palatable as Spackle on a Saltine. Passable stuff not worth the time. (C-)
    6rosscinema

    Good performance helps so-so script

    I did enjoy The Monkey's Mask but lets face it, this script needed some more re-writing. Porter is very good and her character is interesting but she's really not cut out to be a private investigator. When she announces to someone that she's a PI working on the case you expect some of the characters to brush her aside and say "Beat it"! The chapter element of the film is really not needed. This film has no chapters. It's not that long of a film and it flows nicely so it was pointless to have it at all. I did enjoy the sex scenes with Kelly McGillis who doesn't appear in films nearly enough and she's always had great beauty and even though she's probably nearing 50, she looks great. I'm not buying the attraction of the two for each other but the nudity is pretty daring and I enjoyed the audacity of that part of the film. The whole way that she solves the case is not convincing and it looks like anyone could have figured it out. Not a bad little independent film from Australia. I recommend it for Porter's performance and her scenes with McGillis.

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      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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      Written by Alan Wilder (as A. Wilder)

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    • Data di uscita
      • 1 giugno 2001 (Italia)
    • Paesi di origine
      • Australia
      • Canada
      • Francia
      • Italia
      • Giappone
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
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      • The Monkey's Mask
    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Sydney, Nuovo Galles del Sud, Australia
    • Aziende produttrici
      • Arenafilm
      • Asmik Ace Entertainment
      • Canal+
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      • 6831 USD
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    • Tempo di esecuzione
      1 ora 33 minuti
    • Colore
      • Color
    • Mix di suoni
      • Dolby Digital
    • Proporzioni
      • 2.35 : 1

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