Black Moon

de Louis Malle, 1975

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Louis Malle diz sobre o filme:


"It began with the fact that I wanted to shoot the film in my own house" "


Black Moon certainly comes very much from the place where I live, the kind of countryside around the house. There's something very ancient, maybe archaic, about it, also something...hostile."


 "(...)maybe this is a chance to do something that I've always thought of - the equivalent of Surrealism's automatic writing, but in film."


"I don't know how to describe Black Moon because it's a strange melange - if you want, it's a mythological fairy-tale taking place in the near future. There are several themes; one is the ultimate civil war...the war between men and women. I say the 'ultimate civil war,' because through the 1970s we'd been watching all this fighting between people of different religions and races and political beliefs. And this was, of course, the climax and great moment of women's liberation. So, we follow a young girl, in this civil war; she's trying to escape, and in the middle of the wood she finds a house which seems to be abandoned. When she enters the house, she obviously enters another world; she's in the presence of an old lady in bed, who speaks a strange language and converses with a huge rat on her bedside table. She goes from discovery to discovery - it's a sort of initiation." 


"(..) conveys my admiration for and curiosity about Alice in Wonderland."


 "When I prepared the film with Sven, we agreed that there should be no sun, it should be all cloud and flat light with no source and no shadows. The first three weeks here, we had blue skies every day. But we stood our ground, and we shot interiors, or at the very start of the day before the sun was up, or at sunset. There's not one scene in the film with sun."

Antes de serem fuziladas, um homem soldado aproxima-se da mulher soldado e beija-a em tom de despedida. O que acho curioso e interessante neste filme é o facto de a heroína procurar escapar a este estado de guerra, e o facto e nele não haver a vulgar dicotomia vitimas/agressor, homens e mulheres igualmente bárbaros igualmente vitimas.