Monique (film)

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Monique
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Theatrical release poster
Directed byJohn Bown
Written byJohn Bown
Produced byMichael Style
Executive
Tony Tenser
StarringJoan Alcorn
Sibylla Kay
David Sumner
Carol Hawkins
Cinematography Moray Grant
Edited byRichard Sidwell
Music by Jacques Loussier
Production
company
Distributed byTigon
Release date
  • 1970 (1970)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£51,000 [1]

Monique is a 1970 British drama film directed and written by John Bown and starring Joan Alcorn, Sibylla Kay and David Sumner. [2] [3]

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Plot

Monique is a young French au pair who goes to work for unhappily-married couple Jean and Bill. She gets to know husband and wife intimately. Bill soon notices his wife has become more awakened sexually. After Bill sleeps with Monique, he comes home one day to discover the two women in bed together. When Monique returns to France, Bill and Jean discover their marriage has become happier.

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Critical reception

Monthly Film Bulletin said "Despite its unusually naturalistic, almost prosaic approach, Monique remains an unconvincing sexual fairy tale, lacking in any clear moral perspective. Its chief weakness lies in the overly ambivalent title character – a mixture of shallowminded teenager and worldly-wise sophisticate – and the fault lies as much in the script as in Sibylla Kay's performance as the sexual faith-healer." [4]

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References

  1. John Hamilton, Beasts in the Cellar: The Exploitation Film Career of Tony Tenser, Fab Press, 2005 p 153
  2. "The Projected Man". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  3. Simon Sheridan, Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema, Titan Books 2011 p 71-72
  4. "The Projected Man". Monthly Film Bulletin . 37 (432): 166. 1970. ProQuest   1305840852 via ProQuest.