Year: 2009
Directors: Antonio Monti
Writers: Anotonio Monti & Chiara Parodi & Davide Zagnoli
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Trailer: link
Review by: oblivion & quietearth
Rating: N/A (read the review)
Is Antonio Monti the next great Italian auteur? Considering the inventive storytelling and aphotic atmosphere, Monti's Grimm style fairytale, Monkey Boy, seems a strong prologue towards an outstanding career. However, there are also many flaws which might detract from the film's success, alienating an audience despite it's distinct merit. In the end, we still have to recommend this film for it's vision.
Monkey Boy opens with an incredible black and white animation sequence, in the visual vein of the Twilight Zone introduction, that delivers a rich fairy tale backstory to parallel the darkness ahead. The cellar harbors the focal point of our adventure, a freak of nature, possibly half-man-half-monkey, that has been sheltered from the world. Leaving the safe haven, Monkey Boy sets an entire story into motion,...
Directors: Antonio Monti
Writers: Anotonio Monti & Chiara Parodi & Davide Zagnoli
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: oblivion & quietearth
Rating: N/A (read the review)
Is Antonio Monti the next great Italian auteur? Considering the inventive storytelling and aphotic atmosphere, Monti's Grimm style fairytale, Monkey Boy, seems a strong prologue towards an outstanding career. However, there are also many flaws which might detract from the film's success, alienating an audience despite it's distinct merit. In the end, we still have to recommend this film for it's vision.
Monkey Boy opens with an incredible black and white animation sequence, in the visual vein of the Twilight Zone introduction, that delivers a rich fairy tale backstory to parallel the darkness ahead. The cellar harbors the focal point of our adventure, a freak of nature, possibly half-man-half-monkey, that has been sheltered from the world. Leaving the safe haven, Monkey Boy sets an entire story into motion,...
- 9/14/2009
- QuietEarth.us
A big whatup to our boy Avery for finding such dopeness.. This really looks incredible. It's about a Monkey Boy who has been living in a basement all his life and then gets out one night. Guess what happens? From the mind of feature length first time director Antonio Monti and co-writers Chiara Parodi and Davide Zagnoli with excellent cinematography by Davide Crippa.
A freak lived his entire lifetime closed down in a cellar far in the country. But one day the Monkey Boy, after the death of his "keeper", an old lonely woman, is forced to explore the world outside. The story is set during one night only, a short time to discover the world, but enough time to find Agata, an autistic young girl, the only creature that seems to be able to communicate with him in that dark night full of weird lonely and unhappy characters called human beings.
A freak lived his entire lifetime closed down in a cellar far in the country. But one day the Monkey Boy, after the death of his "keeper", an old lonely woman, is forced to explore the world outside. The story is set during one night only, a short time to discover the world, but enough time to find Agata, an autistic young girl, the only creature that seems to be able to communicate with him in that dark night full of weird lonely and unhappy characters called human beings.
- 8/2/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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