Overseas, they call them photonovellas -- comic books made not with drawings but photographs accompanied by written dialogue and captions. This American try at the form concerns sleazeball celebrity-photographer ''Monster'' McGowran. A hardcore paparazzo with no life, he hates the stars, and the stars hate his hostile, intrusive camera. McGreal sets it up so we despise McGowran -- that is, until he barges into a new, exclusive hangout where the biggest star turns into a literal monster. What the photographer uncovers turns him into exactly what he never wanted to be: a celebrity. It's a beautiful nightmare of a fable, superbly shot and edited.
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