Black Moon
Director: Louis Malle
Year Released: 1975
Rating: 0.0
A war is being staged between the men and women (literally - there are guns and casualties), so nubile Lily (Cathryn Harrison) takes refuge in a house that includes a bedridden elderly woman who needs to be breastfed, naked kids running around outside, various critters crawling inside the house and, to top it all off, a talking unicorn. Surrealism in its most hackneyed form (all this hideous symbolism!), it says nothing at all about relations between men and women or what would lead to violence - most of the 'events' (if one can even call them that) are confined to the elderly woman's bedroom and in the back yard, where Lily chases around the unicorn or hangs around the mute Brother Lily (Joe Dallesandro). Malle's filmography is filled with gems (including Au revoir, les enfants and the masterpiece Murmur of the Heart) while this feels like a bad student film (except with cinematography by Sven Nykvist).
