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Wonderful Movie

Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

Excellent but underrated film

The acting in this movie is really good.

This film starts out as a hardcore action thriller set in a dystopic war driven world. Unfortunately, very soon it reveals its true genre: of artistic surrealism. And the problem with this "art" is that this surreal drivel just goes for ever, but never really catches the viewer either by the hart or mind. Instead of this, it just gradually builds up a huge disregard for a movie that presented itself with an excellent openingOf course one can indulge self in seeking the true meaning of a given scene, hidden messages or themes running throughout the film. For example this movie as a whole could be viewed as a battle of a sexes. And the scene with the killing of the bird by the girl combined with the showing of the painting depicting a killing of a similar bird by a painted woman could imply, that the girl and the woman are the one and the same person; thus making girl and / or woman unreal. Or maybe even that also the elderly woman is the same person as the girl and that woman, because the repeated breastfeeding symbolizes a never ending cycle of life, happening even in the time of war blah-blah-blah how much more boring can this movie get? Was the often running around of the girl also to mean something, or was it only put in the film to wake up the audience falling asleep?Aside from a great black and white movie poster, this picture presents us with an extraordinary performance by the leading actress Cathryn Harrison, who must have been of only 15 or 16 years of age at the time of the shooting. Other than that this picture is just a disappointment for the dystopic / sci-fi movie seekers and in overall a surreal waste of time. So in contusion: yes, watch it; but only up to the scene, in which the elderly woman starts a conversation with the animal (which happens 23 minutes into the picture)

OK, now this has got to be one of the weirdest movies I have ever seen.Bottom line: there is NO storyline at all. The movie starts with a young woman fleeing from soldiers who apparently want her dead. So far so good you might think. Well, maybe not for that poor girl, but at least you start identifying with her and you still have the idea that this will lead somewhere and that eventually, you will be granted complete and total illumination. Trust me, you will not. She ends up in a farmhouse and from this point on, things get quite fuzzy for my brain. You probably should be under the influence of some kind of substance to make any sense of it all: all figures other than the young woman seem to appear and disappear at random. Animals can talk (if you take LSD they might), twisted acts are being performed and there's an annoying old lady who must have escaped from a nut-house.If you try, you probably can attach a deep meaning to what you are seeing, but as for me, I just can't see it you know, being sober and all... It almost seems like an attempt to visualize a bad dream. The kind of dream where you desperately want to awake from, realizing it wasn't real. The movie is real. Avoid it, unless you have a pharmacy or a liquor-store nearby.

This movie starts in the middle of nowhere, has nowhere to go, and takes ALL DAY to get there. I like to think I enjoy strange and eclectic works of art, but this just blew me out of the water. There is a remote possibility for a plot, but since there is absolutely no setup or introduction (it just dives into the middle of a chain of events) all meaning is lost throughout the movie. I have never seen a work that was not a silent film that had less dialogue. Seriously, almost no one talks. It's like the people the 'protagonist' (can there be a protagonist without a plot?) comes into contact with simply speak through massages (not a typo- I really said massages). This movie is full of disgusting imagery and hints of incest. As another reviewer mentioned, the soundtrack is absolutely appalling. This film seems to be a series of random events and not one character finds any of it the least bit strange. Even a symbolic or metaphorical work needs to have some kind of realism or make some kind of sense to be in the least bit effective. The only thing this film is effective at is boring the viewer to sleep. Seriously, if you haven't yet, do NOT waste your time finding, renting, borrowing, purchasing, previewing, or even pirating this film. It's just not worth it.

In the mid-70s when this film was made there was - in the real world - a 'battle of the sexes' with militant feminism in full swing (if not an actual 'war', there was a lot of bruised feelings and anger in the air - witness works of fiction like 'Who needs men?' and 'The Woman's Room'); the student riots of the late 1960s were a fresh memory, as were images of Vietnam (and for British viewers, the latest IRA atrocities). Black Moon may not 'make sense', but it's more understandable as a dream, from beginning to end (forget the idea that any of it is meant to be set 'in the near future'), by a pubescent girl, subconsciously worried by the apparent war between the sexes and disturbed by her budding sexuality (note the juxtaposition of the idealised vision of heterosexual love, presented by music from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde first heard on the car radio, quickly followed by the shocking images of war).As mentioned elsewhere, this is beautifully filmed, and IMHO captures beautifully the quality of dreams where one event follows another in a 'stream of consciousness' manner (yet with certain obsessive themes), and the dreamer does everything as if it were the most rational thing to do (as one does in a dream). On first viewing I suspected this film to be a rather self-indulgent exercise, but there's a strangely compelling quality about both the narrative and the beauty of the actual cinematography. Highly recommended.