Black Moon (film)

Infobox Film
name = Black Moon


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director = Louis Malle
producer = Claude Nejar
writer = Louis Malle
Joyce Buñuel
Ghislain Uhry
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starring = Cathryn Harrison
Joe Dallesandro
Alexandra Stewart
music = Diego Masson
cinematography = Sven Nykvist
editing = Suzanne Baron
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released = 1975
runtime = 100 min.
country = France / Germany
language = French
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amg_id = 1:85224
imdb_id = 0072709

"Black Moon", a surreal 1975 film directed by Louis Malle, was the winner of two French César Awards (for sound and cinematography). Shown at the 1975 New York Film Festival, it was distributed in the United States by 20th Century Fox.

The free-flowing narrative pivots around a confused teenager (Cathryn Harrison) who witnesses a war between the sexes and numerous dream-like situations at a country estate. An underlying subtext offers a convoluted commentary on the women's movement of the 1970s.

Also in the cast are Joe Dallesandro, Therese Giehse and Alexandra Stewart.The film was shot in Malle's own 200-year-old manor house and Malle's surrounding 225-acre estate in the lush, wild Dordogne valley in Quercy, near Cahors.

At the time of release, "Black Moon" received mixed reviews and vanished into obscurity. However, it found an appreciative audience in recent years with theatrical revivals and showings on the Turner Classic Movies channel.

External links

*imdb title|id=0072709|title=Black Moon
* [http://allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:85224 Black Moon] at Allmovie
* [http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article.jsp?cid=180498&mainArticleId=180486 'Black Moon' background] at Turner Classic Movies