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Black Moon

5.9

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Original title

Black Moon

Year

1975

Running time

100 min.

Country

France

Director

Louis Malle

Screenwriter

Louis Malle, Joyce Buñuel, Ghislain Uhry

Cast

Music

Diego Masson

Cinematography

Sven Nykvist

Producer

Co-production France-Italy-Germany;

Genre

Sci-Fi. Fantasy

Synopsis

Black Moon is a unique film, constructed entirely out of archetypes that connect as dream images connect (not in a linear, causal fashion, but through their interior meanings). Louis Malle enjoyed breaking the rules of filmmaking (in My Dinner with Andre he created a film almost without physical movement, only dialogue; in Black Moon there is no dialogue whatsoever--only music, sounds, and a feast of images). It flopped in the box office because people couldn't figure it out. However, anyone who loves dreams and archetypes should love this film. It is a great delight discovering the ideas so wordlessly embedded in the interplay of images.

Awards: 1975: Cesar Awards: Best Cinematography, Best Sound

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Critics' reviews

"Malle is a sane man trying to make a crazy man's film. He's temperamentally unsuited to the disordered, meandering vision he's aiming for"

Pauline Kael: The New Yorker
"There is an order to this film, but we must supply it, each according to his needs"

Vincent Canby: The New York Times
"Malle offers no explanation for his heroine's visionary odyssey through a world in which all history runs parallel with all realities. Yet a logic is there, even if its reference point is jabberwocky."

Tom Milne: Time Out

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Black Moon

1975

Louis Malle

5.9

(1,146)