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Black Moon (1974)
Director: Louis Malle
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Malle's weird surrealist fantasy updates Alice in Wonderland into a future society where men and women are engaged in deadly combat, seemingly coexistent with an alternative comradeship of talking rats and enchanted unicorns. 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. A black moon, in astrological terms, refers to the time of chaos that preludes some cataclysmic change. And like Malle's other films around this time, Black Moon hopefully posits a social revolution in which such outmoded concepts as innocence and sin will appear in new guises.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Louis Malle
Producer: Claude Nedjar
Cast: Cathryn Harrison, Thérèse Giehse, Alexandra Stewart, Joe Dallesandro full cast
Duration: 101 mins
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