52 Films by Women Vol 8. 21. Your Monster (Director: Caroline Lindy)
Pictured : Laura ( Melissa Barrera , left) receives an ultimatum from the Monster ( Tommy Dewey , right) in a scene from the horror comedy, ' Your Monster ', written and directed by Caroline Lindy , adapting her 2019 short of the same name. Still courtesy of Sundance Institute / Vertical Entertainment New York musical theatre is a cutthroat business. That’s the takeaway from writer-director Caroline Lindy’s feature debut, Your Monster , adapted from her 2019 short of the same name. The winner of the 2024 Sundance London Audience Award, it tells the story of a wannabe musical star, Laura Franco (Melissa Barrera) who loses both the part she had trained to play and her writer-director boyfriend Jacob Sullivan (Edmund Donovan) on the same day. She helped develop the role of Lori Francis, in a musical entitled ‘House of Good Women’, with Jacob, suggesting lyrics and ensuring that its nominal author was not starved of pasta. Then she had a cancer diagnosis, received treatment, the...