Meet Monica Velour
- warm
- gentle
- intimate
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →For Tobe, a nerdy, horny, frizzy-haired cineaste who doesn't quite fit in with the average contemporary teen, the pinnacle of womanhood is Monica Velour, a soft-core actress who reached the zenith of her career in the 1980s. When Tobe learns that his love idol is headlining hundreds of miles away at the Gentlemen's Petting Zoo in Indiana, he drives off with carefree glory, filled with the hope of meeting her.
Our read · Meet Monica Velour (2010) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Meet Monica Velour
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