On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.
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Alejandro Landes (screenplay), Alexis Dos Santos (screenplay) | 1 more credit »
Premiering at this year’s Sundance, MONOS (meaning ‘monkeys’) is an original enough film that draws from Lord of the Flies but filmed in Colombia. A commando group of youth train in the jungle while given the task of looking after an American hostage by their chief. Thing go south when the cow they have borrowed is killed and the hostage escapes.
There is something inherently beautiful to see male bodies tugging at each other during military training. Famed French director Claire Denis realized this and her film BEAU TRAVAIL has an image of topless men in combat – a very homoerotic image.
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