Les proies

Original title: Moonlight

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6.0/10

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Laurien Van den Broeck in Les proies (2002)

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A bored teen piano prodigy has her life turned upside down one day when she learns her parents are divorcing. After a horrible accident that drives her to run away, Claire befriends a young ... Read allA bored teen piano prodigy has her life turned upside down one day when she learns her parents are divorcing. After a horrible accident that drives her to run away, Claire befriends a young refugee from war torn Afghanistan. As the two of them dream of being renegade outlaws, his... Read allA bored teen piano prodigy has her life turned upside down one day when she learns her parents are divorcing. After a horrible accident that drives her to run away, Claire befriends a young refugee from war torn Afghanistan. As the two of them dream of being renegade outlaws, his hidden truth starts to come out as Claire discovers he is a drug courier and the mobsters... Read all

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IMDb RATING

6.0/10

868

YOUR RATING

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Awards
- 4 wins & 4 nominations total

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Moonlight (2002)

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3Kashmirgrey

Unnecessary Excrement and Urine

If there was a message the director of "Moonlight" was trying to put across, I missed it. However, one thing is certain, I got my fill of two kids' bathroom habits (or lack thereof.) We are not told why a young 13-year old girl, who is obviously loved by her parents and well-taken care of, decides to secretly harbor a young boy who has been shot once in the leg and once in the abdomen. Why she doesn't tell her parents remains a mystery. Of course, how she determined the boy's wounds were a result of being shot is even a more perplexing mystery. He doesn't speak English (or any other language in which she is apparently fluent.) This film begins with a very absorbing plot, but unfortunately the birds ate all its breadcrumbs, and inevitably along with its viewers, the film becomes fatally lost.

6kenbond-53805

Colorful Story

Strengths: Cinematography, locales, chase action, Lauren character. Weaknesses: Overdone toiletry; weak, uncomprehending dialog. This coming-of-age, diminutive waif seems too street-wise for me; stretches credibility. Pilgrimage scenes border on the ridiculous.

5billcr12

Different

A thirteen year-old girl living in a magnificent round and mostly glass house in the middle of nowhere finds a boy in a dilapidated building on the property. He is bleeding from gunshot wounds from some mobster types who left him in the woods. The girl bandages him up and hides him from her oblivious mother and father.

The bad men continue to pursue the boy who is a drug mule, which leads to some extremely unpleasant scene for recovery of the contraband. The pair go on the run to avoid the monster types. Mom and dad continue their clueless behavior as the kids wind up on a bus with nuns. I had a momentary flashback to my Catholic school days. The two leads are excellent but the story a bit of a stretch. Overall, a decent film.

8rogermanning995

Brilliant performance, other world tone

Numerous American reviewers on this site reveal their limitations in their comments. A lot of what they criticize or complain about in this movie are things that take us deeper into the moment of the story that takes place in a different world than they're familiar with. I was also thrown off a bit, until I realized that this wasn't from the European world of film that I'm used to (France, Spain, Germany, Italy).

Larien (playing the main character) is brilliant. What the film does lack is over-played dumbed-down dialogue and over explanation. The settings nicely reinforce the various moods. The girl's coming of age theme is brilliantly played out with subtle and not so subtle devices.

6guspavan

It began well, but It´s a very small film

The history of a girl who finds a wounded dealing drug boy (by obligation), had excited to me in the beginning of the film. But the film became long, eternal... slow and with a prediscible end. Only the performance of Laurien Van den Broeck is worth the trouble, but this it does not do that the film reaches to the 5 points. In order to spend the short while it is well, but you do not wait for too much...

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There is a controversial sex scene in the movie, where the then 13-year-old Laurien Van den Broeck is shown topless. In a 2002 interview in the RTL Boulevard TV show, she said she actually did not like to shoot the sex scene, but the cast, the director and the crew had persuaded her to do it anyway.