Black Moon

1975
R
1h 40m

IMDb RATING

6.1/10

6.4K

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To escape a gender war, a girl flees to a remote farmhouse and becomes part of an extensive family's unusual, perhaps even supernatural, lifestyle.

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To escape a gender war, a girl flees to a remote farmhouse and becomes part of an extensive family's unusual, perhaps even supernatural, lifestyle.To escape a gender war, a girl flees to a remote farmhouse and becomes part of an extensive family's unusual, perhaps even supernatural, lifestyle.To escape a gender war, a girl flees to a remote farmhouse and becomes part of an extensive family's unusual, perhaps even supernatural, lifestyle.

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IMDb RATING

6.1/10

6.4K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 wins total

Old Lady
(as Thérèse Giehse)

Alexandra Stewart

Sister Lily

Joe Dallesandro

Brother Lily

Director
- Louis Malle
Writers
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Trivia
Filmed partially at director Louis Malle's country home in Cahors, France.

Goofs
Throughout the movie Lily's blouse button continuously changes from done up to undone.

Quotes
Lily: I don't mean to be rude, but you're not very graceful. In my books, unicorns are slim and white.
Unicorn: Ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh. The most beautiful things in the world, are the most useless. Peacocks and lilies for instance.

Connections
Referenced in Waking Life (2001)

Soundtracks
Tristan und Isolde
act 2
Written by Richard Wagner

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Unavailable wonderful movie

It played here in Berkeley in the late 1970's at the repertory UC Theatre (now defunct of course), I saw it in Cologne in 1976, but it doesn't seem to have been picked up by any US distributor and it is not and has never been available on VHS, Laserdisc, or DVD anywhere in the world, AFAIK. And I have never seen it on cable tv (Sundance, IFC, you listening?).

A neo-surrealistic fantasy, it was promoted in newspaper ads in Germany as The Movie Where Animals Talk to People!

Weird and wonderful from beginning to end, IMHO. An old woman sitting at her kitchen table talking to a rat sitting on it. An 8 year old or so boy and girl playing in the yard and suddenly breaking into the complete love duet from Tristan & Isolde. Joe Dallesandro of Andy Warhol/Paul Morrisey movies, and lots more. I can't remember it very well at this point, it's been a quarter of a century since I saw it.

The number one film on my want list.