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Australian Cinema Classics
MONKEY GRIP
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About the DVD
Director: KEN CAMERONFormat: PAL
Language: ENGLISH
Region: All
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Number of Discs: 1
Rating: M
DVD Release Date: 23/06/2004
Run Time: 101 mins
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Special features
- "Aqua Profonda" - 2004 Interview with Producer Pat Lovell, Director Ken Cameron & Alice Garner
- Audio Interviews with Writer Helen Garner & Noni Hazlehurst
- All The Boys In Town - video clip
- Photo Montage
- Theatrical Trailer
- Monkey Grip- The Novel
- Umbrella Propaganda
Synopsis
Monkey Grip is a film about the complication of love, desire and freedom.
It is about living with men and living without men.
It is the story of Nora - in her early thirties - recently divorced and caring for her thirteen year-old daughter - a woman trying to live free of the compromises of conventional domesticity and dependence upon men, who, in spite of this, is drawn into a dangerously obsessive relationship with an attractive actor addicted to heroin.
The film is set in the inner Melbourne suburbs of Carlton & Fitzroy, within a network of talented, reckless rock 'n' roll musicians, actors and writers - people refusing to live by the rules of consumerist culture and safe, conventional morality, exploring the possibilities and suffering the traumas of a new sexual openness.
The story takes place from one summer to the next.
It explores the changes Nora undergoes in attempting to gain control over her life.
It is about living with men and living without men.
It is the story of Nora - in her early thirties - recently divorced and caring for her thirteen year-old daughter - a woman trying to live free of the compromises of conventional domesticity and dependence upon men, who, in spite of this, is drawn into a dangerously obsessive relationship with an attractive actor addicted to heroin.
The film is set in the inner Melbourne suburbs of Carlton & Fitzroy, within a network of talented, reckless rock 'n' roll musicians, actors and writers - people refusing to live by the rules of consumerist culture and safe, conventional morality, exploring the possibilities and suffering the traumas of a new sexual openness.
The story takes place from one summer to the next.
It explores the changes Nora undergoes in attempting to gain control over her life.
