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MOON
Tuesday, January 7
6:00
Wednesday, January 8
3:20
U.K., 2009
Directed by Duncan Jones
With Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey
Approx. 87 min. 35mm.
“Sam Rockwell is Sam Bell, a nervous lone astronaut on the moon where, at some point in the near future, a corporation is mining Helium-3, now the source of most global energy. It’s Bell’s job to manage this operation in the company of a sympathetic robot called Gerty (one of several nods to 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY). When we first meet him, Bell’s three-year stint is almost complete, but he’s tired and unhinged — symptoms, no doubt, of solitude and having to communicate with his wife and young child by taped messages as the satellite is broken… If that last fact sounds a bit too convenient, that’s the point: all is not what it seems. Jones has created a credible theatre in which to stage a meditative play on isolation and identity within the bounds of wild fiction, the edges of which are curiously blurred.” – Time Out
Reviews
“A heartfelt, if self-consciously derivative drama of human loneliness.”
– Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian (UK)
“An old-fashioned sci-fi movie in the best sense.”
– Phillip Kemp, Sight and Sound