Jack Reacher; Love Crime; She Monkeys
Of the few physical descriptions offered in Lee Child's source novel One Shot, one fact is clear – the hero of this ongoing avenging angel series is very big (Clive James's phrase "a condom stuffed with walnuts" has been invoked) and very tall. Not so Tom Cruise, who brings many qualities to the title role of Jack Reacher (2012, Paramount, 15), of which both heft and height are notable only by their absence. Replacing physical bulk with bankable box-office power, Cruise ambles through this oddly inert actioner as the eponymous, ghost-like figure, (re)appearing from nowhere after a clearly culpable crackpot is arrested following an apparently random daylight massacre. Teaming up with Rosamund Pike's glamorously attired defence lawyer, whose district attorney father (Richard Jenkins) has sent several prisoners to their deaths, Reacher follows the money to the Zec, a milky-eyed maniac with a very...
Of the few physical descriptions offered in Lee Child's source novel One Shot, one fact is clear – the hero of this ongoing avenging angel series is very big (Clive James's phrase "a condom stuffed with walnuts" has been invoked) and very tall. Not so Tom Cruise, who brings many qualities to the title role of Jack Reacher (2012, Paramount, 15), of which both heft and height are notable only by their absence. Replacing physical bulk with bankable box-office power, Cruise ambles through this oddly inert actioner as the eponymous, ghost-like figure, (re)appearing from nowhere after a clearly culpable crackpot is arrested following an apparently random daylight massacre. Teaming up with Rosamund Pike's glamorously attired defence lawyer, whose district attorney father (Richard Jenkins) has sent several prisoners to their deaths, Reacher follows the money to the Zec, a milky-eyed maniac with a very...
- 4/20/2013
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
A modern Swedish western and coming-of-age drama is hardly the hybridisation you would expect. Lisa Aschan’s directorial debut is this amalgamation of genres, as well as bicuriousity, control and awkward overt sexualisation of a seven year-old.
Unrecognisable genre-blending has made this a most refreshing piece of cinema, one which has kept the confusion and inherent awkwardness of growing up. It has tried to capture the emotions that cinema struggle to illustrate realistically; they’re usually tampered with to become hollow, over-the-top or Americanised leaving the rest of the audiences struggling to sympathise. She Monkeys has managed to capture it with many moments being realistic and uncomfortable but ultimately it all feels worthless.
Emma (Mathilda Paradeiser) joins the local equestrian vaulting team where she meets the more popular, more successful Cassandra (Linda Molin). Their personalities are opposing at the beginning with Emma being a quiet, deadpanned teenage girl who often looks after her little sister.
Unrecognisable genre-blending has made this a most refreshing piece of cinema, one which has kept the confusion and inherent awkwardness of growing up. It has tried to capture the emotions that cinema struggle to illustrate realistically; they’re usually tampered with to become hollow, over-the-top or Americanised leaving the rest of the audiences struggling to sympathise. She Monkeys has managed to capture it with many moments being realistic and uncomfortable but ultimately it all feels worthless.
Emma (Mathilda Paradeiser) joins the local equestrian vaulting team where she meets the more popular, more successful Cassandra (Linda Molin). Their personalities are opposing at the beginning with Emma being a quiet, deadpanned teenage girl who often looks after her little sister.
- 4/17/2013
- by Ashley Norris
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
She Monkeys
Directed by Lisa Aschan
Written by Lisa Aschan and Josefine Adolfsson
Sweden, 2011
Oscar Levant once said, “There’s a fine line between genius and insanity”. Perhaps Levant was a genius (or perhaps he was insane), but the truth within his aphorism is both pithy and well documented. In cinema, the most notable auteurs have always been avant-garde, pushing the boundaries of our sensibilities with purposed provocation, and although Lisa Aschan’s She Monkeys isn’t nearly as groundbreaking as its influential predecessors, it nevertheless straddles the precarious equilibrium of genius and insanity.
When Emma (Mathilda Paradeiser), a girl of unflinching earnestness, resolves to join an equestrian acrobatics team, she encounters Cassandra (Linda Molin), her enigmatic teammate with a piercingly frigid persona. As they begin to bond, their relationship escalates with sudden intensity, resulting in a smorgasbord narrative of desire, love, rivalry, and power.
Initially, and ironically, the film...
Directed by Lisa Aschan
Written by Lisa Aschan and Josefine Adolfsson
Sweden, 2011
Oscar Levant once said, “There’s a fine line between genius and insanity”. Perhaps Levant was a genius (or perhaps he was insane), but the truth within his aphorism is both pithy and well documented. In cinema, the most notable auteurs have always been avant-garde, pushing the boundaries of our sensibilities with purposed provocation, and although Lisa Aschan’s She Monkeys isn’t nearly as groundbreaking as its influential predecessors, it nevertheless straddles the precarious equilibrium of genius and insanity.
When Emma (Mathilda Paradeiser), a girl of unflinching earnestness, resolves to join an equestrian acrobatics team, she encounters Cassandra (Linda Molin), her enigmatic teammate with a piercingly frigid persona. As they begin to bond, their relationship escalates with sudden intensity, resulting in a smorgasbord narrative of desire, love, rivalry, and power.
Initially, and ironically, the film...
- 5/25/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Measuring the full emotional extent of a hormonal teenage mind is something cinema rarely manages to get right, normally forcing its characters into easily categorised pop psychology pigeonholes. When a rare film actually nails it, we should take notice, as in Swedish director Lisa Aschan’s startlingly chilly feature debut, She Monkeys.
Emma (Mathilda Paradeiser) is a quiet, composed, meticulous teenage girl and a keen equestrian vaulter. She meets Cassandra (Linda Molin), a fellow vaulter, and the two embark on a friendly relationship which soon seems to become something more. As the competitive pressure of qualifying for their vaulting team mounts, so too does the sexual tension, with some unexpected consequences.
It would be very easy for something like this to start as a meet-cute and quickly devolve into a sleazily exploitative middle-aged man’s fantasy. Guided by Aschan’s firm – yes, feminine – directorial hand, it...
Measuring the full emotional extent of a hormonal teenage mind is something cinema rarely manages to get right, normally forcing its characters into easily categorised pop psychology pigeonholes. When a rare film actually nails it, we should take notice, as in Swedish director Lisa Aschan’s startlingly chilly feature debut, She Monkeys.
Emma (Mathilda Paradeiser) is a quiet, composed, meticulous teenage girl and a keen equestrian vaulter. She meets Cassandra (Linda Molin), a fellow vaulter, and the two embark on a friendly relationship which soon seems to become something more. As the competitive pressure of qualifying for their vaulting team mounts, so too does the sexual tension, with some unexpected consequences.
It would be very easy for something like this to start as a meet-cute and quickly devolve into a sleazily exploitative middle-aged man’s fantasy. Guided by Aschan’s firm – yes, feminine – directorial hand, it...
- 5/19/2012
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
The Dictator (15)
(Larry Charles, 2012, Us) Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris, Jason Mantzoukas, Ben Kingsley, John C Reilly. 83 mins
Having run out of unsuspecting Americans to prank, Sacha Baron Cohen takes the conventional fish-out-of-water route this time, as his Arab tyrant comes to terms with western democracy. But if the story plays it safe, the comedy treads a risky line between lampooning Islamophobia and fuelling it. The high gag rate, animated performance and general broad-spectrum offensiveness help him get away with murder, and worse.
The Raid (18)
(Gareth Evans, 2011, Indon/Us) Iko Uwais, Joe Taslim, Yayan Ruhian. 101 mins
Throwing more punches than every other movie this year combined, this single-minded Indonesian martial arts epic doesn't let up until everyone in its baddy-infested apartment block, and the auditorium, is pummelled into submission. Pacifists, look away now.
2 Days In New York (15)
(Julie Delpy, 2011, Ger/Fra/Bel) Julie Delpy, Chris Rock, Albert Delpy. 96 mins
Welcome return for Delpy's chaotic,...
(Larry Charles, 2012, Us) Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris, Jason Mantzoukas, Ben Kingsley, John C Reilly. 83 mins
Having run out of unsuspecting Americans to prank, Sacha Baron Cohen takes the conventional fish-out-of-water route this time, as his Arab tyrant comes to terms with western democracy. But if the story plays it safe, the comedy treads a risky line between lampooning Islamophobia and fuelling it. The high gag rate, animated performance and general broad-spectrum offensiveness help him get away with murder, and worse.
The Raid (18)
(Gareth Evans, 2011, Indon/Us) Iko Uwais, Joe Taslim, Yayan Ruhian. 101 mins
Throwing more punches than every other movie this year combined, this single-minded Indonesian martial arts epic doesn't let up until everyone in its baddy-infested apartment block, and the auditorium, is pummelled into submission. Pacifists, look away now.
2 Days In New York (15)
(Julie Delpy, 2011, Ger/Fra/Bel) Julie Delpy, Chris Rock, Albert Delpy. 96 mins
Welcome return for Delpy's chaotic,...
- 5/18/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
I was struggling to figure out the literal and/or metaphoric reason for the tumbleweeds -- yes, actual tumbleweeds -- that roll lazily more than once through She Monkeys (in the original Swedish, Apflickorna). Are they reflections -- if strained and preposterous ones -- of the emotional desolation of its characters? And then I learned that writer (with Josefine Adolfsson) and director Lisa Aschan sees this as a modern Western. I don’t see a Western here -- the tumbleweeds still seem ridiculous -- and I’m still struggling to find reasons to do more than merely coolly appreciate, from an emotional distance, the disagreeably detached dissection of young girls’ sexuality on offer. Teen Emma (Mathilda Paradeiser) and her new acquaintance Cassandra (Linda Molin), members of an equestrian gymnastics team, are engaging an ugly push-and-pull of love and hate, dominance and submission, attraction and revulsion. Meanwhile, Emma’s little sister,...
- 5/18/2012
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
This worthwhile film is a tremulous, pained study of awkward emotions among teenage Swedish lesbians
A film about teenage Swedish lesbians will always appeal to, ahem, a specialist demographic, but I doubt anyone will get especially hot under the collar from this tremulous, pained study of awkward emotions. Mathilda Paradeiser plays poker-faced Emma, who joins a horseback-acrobatics class and there meets the more apparently popular Cassandra; an instant connection is formed. Ambiguous and clenched, Emma struggles to respond to Cassandra's enthusiastic overtures. A counterpoint is offered via her little sister's unashamed passion for their older (male) cousin. It suffers a little from its resolute avoidance of titillation – a little more passion would not have gone amiss – but it's a worthwhile effort nonetheless.
Rating: 3/5
DramaWorld cinemaAndrew Pulver
guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms...
A film about teenage Swedish lesbians will always appeal to, ahem, a specialist demographic, but I doubt anyone will get especially hot under the collar from this tremulous, pained study of awkward emotions. Mathilda Paradeiser plays poker-faced Emma, who joins a horseback-acrobatics class and there meets the more apparently popular Cassandra; an instant connection is formed. Ambiguous and clenched, Emma struggles to respond to Cassandra's enthusiastic overtures. A counterpoint is offered via her little sister's unashamed passion for their older (male) cousin. It suffers a little from its resolute avoidance of titillation – a little more passion would not have gone amiss – but it's a worthwhile effort nonetheless.
Rating: 3/5
DramaWorld cinemaAndrew Pulver
guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms...
- 5/17/2012
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Clothing was stripped of branding, and there are no ads or billboards in uncompromising tale of teenage rivalry
On paper, She Monkeys sounds like UniLad's wet dream: nubile Swedish girls experiment with their sexuality. Sadly for any potential babe-botherers out there, the film is actually a dispassionate coming-of-age indie flick set in a washed-out town on the west coast of Sweden, where two teenage girls attempt to navigate the psychological minefield of those strange years just before womanhood.
She Monkeys centres on Emma (played by Mathilda Paradeiser), a seemingly shy 14-year-old hoping to make it in on to the local voltige (horse-vaulting) team. The world she enters is a fierce one of tacit teenage codes and continuous physical scrutiny. The dangers of the sport offer a contrast to the introspective mood of the film, as well as symbolising the fears associated with the uncharted territory of adolescence. The story begins...
On paper, She Monkeys sounds like UniLad's wet dream: nubile Swedish girls experiment with their sexuality. Sadly for any potential babe-botherers out there, the film is actually a dispassionate coming-of-age indie flick set in a washed-out town on the west coast of Sweden, where two teenage girls attempt to navigate the psychological minefield of those strange years just before womanhood.
She Monkeys centres on Emma (played by Mathilda Paradeiser), a seemingly shy 14-year-old hoping to make it in on to the local voltige (horse-vaulting) team. The world she enters is a fierce one of tacit teenage codes and continuous physical scrutiny. The dangers of the sport offer a contrast to the introspective mood of the film, as well as symbolising the fears associated with the uncharted territory of adolescence. The story begins...
- 4/27/2012
- by Rosie Swash
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★★☆ Swedish director Lisa Aschan's remarkably assured debut feature She Monkeys (2011) is a hormonally-charged, coming-of-age drama, depicting the conflict between two competitive teenage girls, and stars Mathilda Paradeiser, Linda Molin and Isabella Lindquist.
On the cusp of maturity, 15-year-old Emma (Paradeiser) lives with her younger sister Sara (Lindquist) and their farther Ivan (Sergej Merkusjev). She's about to embark on a series of fascinating encounters that will ultimately mould her into the sort of woman she'll become. She Monkeys opens with this staunch, empowered adolescent training her obedient Border Collie using a clicker. She barely says a word other than sharp, harsh commands towards her incredibly compliant, four legged companion but instantly we can see that Emma is a girl who positively revels in being in control.
Emma meets Cassandra (Molin), a confident, beautiful and incredibly nubile girl whilst trying out for the local equestrian gymnastic team. The two quickly bond...
On the cusp of maturity, 15-year-old Emma (Paradeiser) lives with her younger sister Sara (Lindquist) and their farther Ivan (Sergej Merkusjev). She's about to embark on a series of fascinating encounters that will ultimately mould her into the sort of woman she'll become. She Monkeys opens with this staunch, empowered adolescent training her obedient Border Collie using a clicker. She barely says a word other than sharp, harsh commands towards her incredibly compliant, four legged companion but instantly we can see that Emma is a girl who positively revels in being in control.
Emma meets Cassandra (Molin), a confident, beautiful and incredibly nubile girl whilst trying out for the local equestrian gymnastic team. The two quickly bond...
- 10/15/2011
- by Daniel Green
- CineVue
She-Monkeys
Director: Lisa Aschan
Writers: Lisa Aschan, Josefine Adolfsson
In Spartacus, Crassus and Antoninus coyly discuss sexual preferences in terms of snails and oysters. When it comes to Sapphic teen dramas centred on the world of sport, it might simply boil down to a choice between synchronised swimming and equestrian vaulting. While Céline Sciamma’s Water Lilies was all lingering poolside gazes and hypnotic synthesisers, Lisa Aschan’s equally impressive She-Monkeys treads a much darker line between desire and athletic rivalry.
She-Monkeys begins with Emma (Mathilda Paradeiser) trying out for the vaulting team on which Cassandra (Linda Molin) is the undoubted star. Blonde, poised and supremely confident, Cassandra initiates the new recruit into this highly competitive world and helps with her training. But their growing intimacy is undercut with both recklessness and cruelty. Meanwhile, single dad Ivan (Sergej Merkusjev) has his own problems dealing with the burgeoning sexuality of Emma’s younger sister,...
Director: Lisa Aschan
Writers: Lisa Aschan, Josefine Adolfsson
In Spartacus, Crassus and Antoninus coyly discuss sexual preferences in terms of snails and oysters. When it comes to Sapphic teen dramas centred on the world of sport, it might simply boil down to a choice between synchronised swimming and equestrian vaulting. While Céline Sciamma’s Water Lilies was all lingering poolside gazes and hypnotic synthesisers, Lisa Aschan’s equally impressive She-Monkeys treads a much darker line between desire and athletic rivalry.
She-Monkeys begins with Emma (Mathilda Paradeiser) trying out for the vaulting team on which Cassandra (Linda Molin) is the undoubted star. Blonde, poised and supremely confident, Cassandra initiates the new recruit into this highly competitive world and helps with her training. But their growing intimacy is undercut with both recklessness and cruelty. Meanwhile, single dad Ivan (Sergej Merkusjev) has his own problems dealing with the burgeoning sexuality of Emma’s younger sister,...
- 10/13/2011
- by Susannah
- SoundOnSight
She Monkeys / Apflickorna Trailer. Lisa Aschan‘s She Monkeys / Apflickorna (2011) movie stars Mathilda Paradeiser, Linda Molin, Isabella Lindquist, Sergej Merkusjev, and Adam Lundgren. She Monkeys / Apflickorna‘s plot synopsis: “When Emma meets Cassandra, they initiate a relationship filled with physical and psychological challenges. Emma does whatever it takes to master the rules of the game. Lines are crossed and the stakes get higher and higher. Despite this, Emma can’t resist the intoxicating feeling of total control.”
The fact that both of the girls are in competition with each other yet one girl seems to hate and like the other girl at the same time will make for a cool dynamic on screen.
I found the tone of the film to be far closer to Celine Schiamma’s Water Lilies than that of Moodysson’s Fukcing Amal (Show Me Love). It’s tightly wound 80 minutes is centered around the budding...
The fact that both of the girls are in competition with each other yet one girl seems to hate and like the other girl at the same time will make for a cool dynamic on screen.
I found the tone of the film to be far closer to Celine Schiamma’s Water Lilies than that of Moodysson’s Fukcing Amal (Show Me Love). It’s tightly wound 80 minutes is centered around the budding...
- 8/9/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
Updated through 4/30.
"At first it was about neighborhood," begins Eric Hynes in the Voice. "Then it was about stars, parties, and supersizing. But finally, for its 10th incarnation, the Tribeca Film Festival (April 20-May 1) seems to be about movies. Gone are the superfluous, attention-sucking Hollywood premieres (Tom Cruise on a Jet Ski, anyone?), and few are the big-name, low-quality vanity projects. Several years into a vital slimming of the slate — the fest topped out at 176 films in 2005; this year, it's a manageable 93 — Tff remains New York's largest film survey."
To celebrate Tribeca's 10th, we're running a retrospective of some of the best films the festival's shown over the past decade here at Mubi. Happy viewing.
"A notoriously uneven assemblage of titles, Tribeca aspires toward something like a mini Toronto, but despite, in recent years, bringing such important films as Jia Zhangke's Still Life and Mohammad Rasoulof's The White Meadows...
"At first it was about neighborhood," begins Eric Hynes in the Voice. "Then it was about stars, parties, and supersizing. But finally, for its 10th incarnation, the Tribeca Film Festival (April 20-May 1) seems to be about movies. Gone are the superfluous, attention-sucking Hollywood premieres (Tom Cruise on a Jet Ski, anyone?), and few are the big-name, low-quality vanity projects. Several years into a vital slimming of the slate — the fest topped out at 176 films in 2005; this year, it's a manageable 93 — Tff remains New York's largest film survey."
To celebrate Tribeca's 10th, we're running a retrospective of some of the best films the festival's shown over the past decade here at Mubi. Happy viewing.
"A notoriously uneven assemblage of titles, Tribeca aspires toward something like a mini Toronto, but despite, in recent years, bringing such important films as Jia Zhangke's Still Life and Mohammad Rasoulof's The White Meadows...
- 4/30/2011
- MUBI
By John Esther
(April 2011)
As some film festivals diminish in size or structure during these woeful economic times, the San Francisco International Film Festival (Sfiff), the longest-running film festival in the Americas, launched its 54th version April 21 with a screening of writer-director Mike Mills’ “Beginners,” starring Mélanie Laurent, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Goran Visnjic.
The next day, Sfiff was in full force, screening films from around the world in several different venues in San Francisco and beyond, and will continue until May 5.
Some of the European highlights in the festival are writer-director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s delightfully quirky film “Attenberg,” about a 23-year-old Greek woman, Marina (Ariane Labed), coming to terms with sex, death and decay in its various forms, and Régis Sauder’s “Children of teh Princess of Cleves,” a rather fascinating documentary about a group of working-class French teenagers who find value in themselves, literature and art...
(April 2011)
As some film festivals diminish in size or structure during these woeful economic times, the San Francisco International Film Festival (Sfiff), the longest-running film festival in the Americas, launched its 54th version April 21 with a screening of writer-director Mike Mills’ “Beginners,” starring Mélanie Laurent, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Goran Visnjic.
The next day, Sfiff was in full force, screening films from around the world in several different venues in San Francisco and beyond, and will continue until May 5.
Some of the European highlights in the festival are writer-director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s delightfully quirky film “Attenberg,” about a 23-year-old Greek woman, Marina (Ariane Labed), coming to terms with sex, death and decay in its various forms, and Régis Sauder’s “Children of teh Princess of Cleves,” a rather fascinating documentary about a group of working-class French teenagers who find value in themselves, literature and art...
- 4/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
By John Esther
(April 2011)
As some film festivals diminish in size or structure during these woeful economic times, the San Francisco International Film Festival (Sfiff), the longest-running film festival in the Americas, launched its 54th version April 21 with a screening of writer-director Mike Mills’ “Beginners,” starring Mélanie Laurent, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Goran Visnjic.
The next day, Sfiff was in full force, screening films from around the world in several different venues in San Francisco and beyond, and will continue until May 5.
Some of the European highlights in the festival are writer-director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s delightfully quirky film “Attenberg,” about a 23-year-old Greek woman, Marina (Ariane Labed), coming to terms with sex, death and decay in its various forms, and Régis Sauder’s “Children of teh Princess of Cleves,” a rather fascinating documentary about a group of working-class French teenagers who find value in themselves, literature and art...
(April 2011)
As some film festivals diminish in size or structure during these woeful economic times, the San Francisco International Film Festival (Sfiff), the longest-running film festival in the Americas, launched its 54th version April 21 with a screening of writer-director Mike Mills’ “Beginners,” starring Mélanie Laurent, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Goran Visnjic.
The next day, Sfiff was in full force, screening films from around the world in several different venues in San Francisco and beyond, and will continue until May 5.
Some of the European highlights in the festival are writer-director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s delightfully quirky film “Attenberg,” about a 23-year-old Greek woman, Marina (Ariane Labed), coming to terms with sex, death and decay in its various forms, and Régis Sauder’s “Children of teh Princess of Cleves,” a rather fascinating documentary about a group of working-class French teenagers who find value in themselves, literature and art...
- 4/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Director: Lisa Aschan Writers: Lisa Aschan, Josefine Adolfsson Starring: Mathilda Paradeiser, Linda Molin, Isabella Lindquist Our initial introduction to Emma (Mathilda Paradeiser), as she trains her dog with a clicker, showcases her intense desire for power and control. Emma's life philosophy -- which she attempts to pass along to her younger sister, Sara (Isabella Lindquist) -- is to never let anyone see her emotions; and she does not talk much either. Later, when we watch Emma as she auditions for an equestrian gymnastics team (essentially, yoga on horseback), it becomes immediately apparent that Emma is prepared in terms of technique and strength, but her frigid personality will be a severe hindrance when it comes time to perform for an audience. Emma is essentially like a robot, her movements and actions appear to be overtly precise and calculated; she has an incredibly intense personality with an unwavering vision. Emma is chosen...
- 4/28/2011
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Reviewed by Randee Dawn
(April 2011, screening at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festivl)
Directed by: Lisa Aschan
Written by: Josefine Adolfsson and Lisa Aschan
Starring: Mathilda Paradeiser, Linda Molin, Isabella Lindquist, Sergej Merkusjev, Adam Lundgren and Sigmund Hovind
Sugar and spice and everything nice? If that’s the image you have of best girlfriends, “She Monkeys” will set you straight. A stark look into the world of two teen girls in Sweden experimenting in just about all ways possible with power, sexuality and morals, “She Monkeys” draws audiences into this mysterious relationship — which can seem more like frenemies than friends.
Enigmatic Emma (Mathilda Paradeiser, resembling a younger Chloë Sevigny) meets the slightly older and conventionally prettier Cassandra (Linda Molin) at the equestrian acrobatics club. (Indie film 101: Be sure to include an obscure, metaphorical hobby for your leads.) The two are natural competitors but quickly forge a strange and almost too-close friendship:...
(April 2011, screening at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festivl)
Directed by: Lisa Aschan
Written by: Josefine Adolfsson and Lisa Aschan
Starring: Mathilda Paradeiser, Linda Molin, Isabella Lindquist, Sergej Merkusjev, Adam Lundgren and Sigmund Hovind
Sugar and spice and everything nice? If that’s the image you have of best girlfriends, “She Monkeys” will set you straight. A stark look into the world of two teen girls in Sweden experimenting in just about all ways possible with power, sexuality and morals, “She Monkeys” draws audiences into this mysterious relationship — which can seem more like frenemies than friends.
Enigmatic Emma (Mathilda Paradeiser, resembling a younger Chloë Sevigny) meets the slightly older and conventionally prettier Cassandra (Linda Molin) at the equestrian acrobatics club. (Indie film 101: Be sure to include an obscure, metaphorical hobby for your leads.) The two are natural competitors but quickly forge a strange and almost too-close friendship:...
- 4/17/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Randee Dawn
(April 2011, screening at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festivl)
Directed by: Lisa Aschan
Written by: Josefine Adolfsson and Lisa Aschan
Starring: Mathilda Paradeiser, Linda Molin, Isabella Lindquist, Sergej Merkusjev, Adam Lundgren and Sigmund Hovind
Sugar and spice and everything nice? If that’s the image you have of best girlfriends, “She Monkeys” will set you straight. A stark look into the world of two teen girls in Sweden experimenting in just about all ways possible with power, sexuality and morals, “She Monkeys” draws audiences into this mysterious relationship — which can seem more like frenemies than friends.
Enigmatic Emma (Mathilda Paradeiser, resembling a younger Chloë Sevigny) meets the slightly older and conventionally prettier Cassandra (Linda Molin) at the equestrian acrobatics club. (Indie film 101: Be sure to include an obscure, metaphorical hobby for your leads.) The two are natural competitors but quickly forge a strange and almost too-close friendship:...
(April 2011, screening at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festivl)
Directed by: Lisa Aschan
Written by: Josefine Adolfsson and Lisa Aschan
Starring: Mathilda Paradeiser, Linda Molin, Isabella Lindquist, Sergej Merkusjev, Adam Lundgren and Sigmund Hovind
Sugar and spice and everything nice? If that’s the image you have of best girlfriends, “She Monkeys” will set you straight. A stark look into the world of two teen girls in Sweden experimenting in just about all ways possible with power, sexuality and morals, “She Monkeys” draws audiences into this mysterious relationship — which can seem more like frenemies than friends.
Enigmatic Emma (Mathilda Paradeiser, resembling a younger Chloë Sevigny) meets the slightly older and conventionally prettier Cassandra (Linda Molin) at the equestrian acrobatics club. (Indie film 101: Be sure to include an obscure, metaphorical hobby for your leads.) The two are natural competitors but quickly forge a strange and almost too-close friendship:...
- 4/17/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
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