The first feature film by Welsh filmmaker Chris Monger, Repeater was shown at the 1980 Edinburgh Film Festival, where it was described as “a thriller whose shifting representations of events continually pose doubt and ambiguity. Repeater centres on the character of Marie, the woman whose confession of murder opens the film. Motives and actions remain mysterious as double enigmas emerge and identities are not perhaps what they seem. As if to experience both sides of the murder, Marie hires a man to be her own killer, but by the end of the film it is she who has murdered him and returns to the police.”
Repeater has been called “a murder mystery which differs from conventional mysteries in that it gets more mysterious as it goes along” (Paul Jackson). Monger has stated, “I wanted a complicated plot, in many ways an unbelievable plot. Basically it is about a woman trying to understand events, explain events, create events.... All my films have to an extent been about the process of film-making. In Repeater you never see a camera... but hopefully it is a larger, more complex exploration; it's about telling a story, portraying an event, why there should be an event worth portraying, and so on.”
Chris Monger's short films include Aesthete's Foot, Enough Cuts for a Murder, and Fallen Town.