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Friday 2 August 2013

B. Monkey (1998)

A London schoolteacher with unfulfilled dreams meets a woman that gives him the danger his life was lacking. The woman is B. Monkey.
Asia Argento isn't the greatest actress in the world, but she has confidence and an ambivalent allure that can make an average film better if the director plays up to it, like Michael Radford did here. Playing her against Jared Harris works well; they each have what the other needs emotionally, but the accompanying baggage threatens to drag them both down.

3 parts of the trip out of 5

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