Black Moon: The Criterion Collection [Blu-ray] Reviews

It takes quite a bit of chutzpah to go from a point of near-universal acclaim for your film Lacombe Lucien and then offer something as irritating as Black Moon as your next cinematic endeavor, but that’s exactly what Louis Malle did, and he certainly rolled snake eyes with this one. A garbled, singularly plotless and pointless exercise in symbolic fantasy, Black Moon leaves its explanations and interpretations to each viewer, but that’s not enigmatic writing; it’s lazy writing (Malle called it his way of performing automatic writing in cinematic terms, filming things as they came to him). Whatever it is, Black Moon will likely prove unsatisfying for many, its occasionally effective symbol or a sometimes stunning bit of cinematic composition notwithstanding.  

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