Review of B. Monkey (1999) by Saffron S — 29 Nov 2007
Read and fell head over heels in love with the book, waited three years for the movie to be released and ---- found that it had been hacked to death to the point of being beyond recognition. I know the un-hacked version screened at the Venice Film Festival .
.. once. *pouts* Wish I had been there to see it. Asia does a fantastic job as always -- this was the first major entry from her early-twenties "sex bomb" phase. Rupert Everett is great. JRM doesn't have much to work with (or rather, they left little of his juicy stuff in), Jared Harris is left with little to do.
BUT because its a Michael Radford movie, the cinematography is drop dead gorgeous so half the time you don't even realize you're watching the corpse of a decent film twitch for 90 minutes.
This review of B. Monkey (1999) was written by Saffron S on 29 Nov 2007.
B. Monkey has generally received mixed reviews.
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