Spanking the Monkey

Aroview: The awkwardness of youth is brilliantly captured in this provocative tragi-comedy, another maverick success story from the US indie scene. A student steps in for his father to look after his convalescing mother with whom he develops a strangely special relationship. Themes of insecurity, alienation, trust and abuse are treated with a deftly delicate balance of the poignant, the queasy and the comic.

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