Name: Monkey Lovers
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2007-05-06
Duration: 25 min
Rating: 8.5
Cast: Karl Pilkington

With her tenant Jo, Jean has converted her flat into a home for seventy-seven different animals, twenty-two of which are monkeys. Dawn and Lee have several young children but even more marmoset monkeys kicking around the house. This documentary looks at the reasons for and reality with the two families living with so many monkeys.

The New Shoots season of films started out with a handful of films that were not only by disabled directors but were about disabilities. However many for many of the films, disability is not an issue other than the themeing of the commissioning body and Monkey Lovers was one of these. The film doesn't have any sort of agenda or message to deliver and this bothered me at first as I was waiting for it to "do" something. However once I got passed this I found the film to be reasonably engaging as a short fly-on-the-wall piece about two sets of people who keep a lot of small monkeys round the house.

It never really gets to the heart of their passion, or manages to convey it on to the viewer but it is still amusing to see these dysfunctional families live. The directors copy well with the tight rooms and only once did you get one of the crew in the frame as the camera jerked backwards with its subject. Pilkington's narration was nothing special but I did like the fact that the subjects were all heavily Northern  not sure why, just like the accent! Overall though, it isn't good enough to be worth seeking out but it was an amusing peek at the weird lives of others.

The documentary is a form of non-fiction storytelling that aims to present factual information, insights, and perspectives on real-world subjects, events, issues, or people. Documentaries can cover a wide range of topics, including history, science, culture, social issues, nature, biographies, and more.

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