Dana Adam Shapiro blasted onto the scene with Murderball, a Sundance doc about fear-less wheelchair warriors consumed by a modified full-contact sport of rugby. His first narrative feature film Monogamy, which just got picked up by Oscilloscope Laboratories, is described as a cautionary tale about sex, photography, and fear of marriage. I found this clip on the filmmaker’s site that sees actress Rashida Jones totally nail it – love her character’s response. Here’s the synopsis on the film which Oscilloscope will peg with a 2011 date – and below is a Youtube clip of premiere night at the Tribeca Film Festival which may contain some spoilers.
Co-written by Shapiro and Evan M. Wiener, anxious about his impending marriage to Nat (Jones) and thoroughly bored with his day job as a wedding photographer, Theo (Chris Messina) establishes a hobby: he’s hired by clients to clandestinely snap voyeuristic photos of them as they go about their days. Things go smoothly until a sexy exhibitionist (Meital Dohan) leads him into an all-consuming obsession. Stalking her day and night, the woman’s mysterious public trysts send Theo reeling, forcing him to confront uncomfortable truths about his sex life at home.
