Miss Monday

Miss Monday is a disturbingly intelligent look at the pains of life that exist behind closed doors. What plays as a stalker/voyeur film turns into a startling and significant realization about the pain and suffering many people endure and hide from the world. The film is as honest and painful as one might hope when indulging into the core of its voyeur's subject.

Finally, in a period of crisis for filmmaking, a director who knows how to handle his subject perfectly. My personal favourite for 1998 (so far).

A tasteful resurrection of a lost generation of Progressive Independent Filmmakers and Storyliners who realise the importance of fusion in all aspects of Film-making systems. Comedy clashes with Self-Inflicted Cruelty. A thinking flick designed to manufacture further meditation on the subject matter. Who are these guys and when do I get to see this Film again? (Only showing in Hawaii: Hawaii International Spring Film Festival) Aloha

1998 Sundance Film Festival award winning "Miss Monday" transports us to a state of mind we all want to deny, but need to see. The director, Benson Lee, makes us laugh with some comedy, then slams down a serious and sensitive subject on our heads. This extreme change of emotions is what creates the overall ambience of the movie. The main character is brilliantly acted by Andrea Hart, and sexy James Hicks' Roman is our guide in this movie full of powerful emotions and seamless storytelling. Absolutely brilliant.

Strongly and admittedly influenced by Polanski, the writer-- in this film featuring the writer of a film featuring the writer of a film-- enters an abject little world fraught with the possibility of violent confrontation at any moment. He is following a wise-sounding credo that tells him that by deeply portraying the individual he will reveal the type (but try to portray the type and you will reveal nothing). Does he succeed? Or does the credo, by which he hopes to portray the type, lead him ironically to a revelation of the individual?