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Director:
Louis Malle
Writers:
Louis Malle (written by)
Joyce Buñuel (collaboration: dialogue)
Contact:
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Release Date:
24 September 1975 (France) more
Genre:
Fantasy | Sci-Fi | War more
Tagline:
An apocalyptic Alice in Wonderland!
Plot:
There is a war in the world between the men and the women. A young girl tries to escape this reality... more | full synopsis
Awards:
2 wins more
User Comments:
A nightmare of the '70s more

Cast

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Directed by
Louis Malle 
 
Writing credits
Louis Malle (written by)

Joyce Buñuel (collaboration: dialogue) (as Joyce Bunuel)

Produced by
Claude Nejar .... producer
 
Cinematography by
Sven Nykvist (director of photography)
 
Film Editing by
Suzanne Baron 
 
Production Design by
Ghislain Uhry 
 
Production Management
Paul Maigret .... production manager
Roland Thénot .... assistant production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Fernand Moszkowicz .... assistant director
 
Art Department
Ferracci .... poster design (uncredited)
 
Sound Department
Michèle Collison .... post-synchronisation assistant
Nara Kollery .... sound recordist (as Nora Kolery)
Jacques Lévy .... post synchronization
Jacques Maumont .... sound mixer
Luc Perini .... sound designer: dream sequence
 
Special Effects by
Pierre Roudeix .... special effects
 
Camera and Electrical Department
François Catonné .... assistant camera
Bruno de Keyzer .... assistant camera
 
Editorial Department
Joëlle Barjolin .... assistant editor (as Joelle Barjolin)
 
Music Department
Les Enfants de la Maîtrise de Radio-France .... music collaborator
Sylvia Lindenstrand .... music collaborator
Diego Masson .... musical director
Anthony Roden .... music collaborator
 
Other crew
François Nadal .... consultant: Conseillers Animaliers
Robert Verbecke .... consultant: Conseillers Animaliers
 
Thanks
Therese Giehse .... in memory of (as Thérèse Giehse)
 

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Additional Details

Runtime:
France:100 min | France:95 min
Language:
English | French
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
The old woman: [talking to someone over the radio] The girl? She just lost her bloomers and now she's eating the cheese.
[listens]
The old woman: Of course there was Christmas cheese!
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Soundtrack:
Tristan und Isolde more

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6 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
A nightmare of the '70s, 8 December 2007
8/10
Author: Boris_G from United Kingdom

In the mid-70s when this film was made there was - in the real world - a 'battle of the sexes' with militant feminism in full swing (if not an actual 'war', there was a lot of bruised feelings and anger in the air - witness works of fiction like 'Who needs men?' and 'The Woman's Room'); the student riots of the late 1960s were a fresh memory, as were images of Vietnam (and for British viewers, the latest IRA atrocities). Black Moon may not 'make sense', but it's more understandable as a dream, from beginning to end (forget the idea that any of it is meant to be set 'in the near future'), by a pubescent girl, subconsciously worried by the apparent war between the sexes and disturbed by her budding sexuality (note the juxtaposition of the idealised vision of heterosexual love, presented by music from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde first heard on the car radio, quickly followed by the shocking images of war).

As mentioned elsewhere, this is beautifully filmed, and IMHO captures beautifully the quality of dreams where one event follows another in a 'stream of consciousness' manner (yet with certain obsessive themes), and the dreamer does everything as if it were the most rational thing to do (as one does in a dream). On first viewing I suspected this film to be a rather self-indulgent exercise, but there's a strangely compelling quality about both the narrative and the beauty of the actual cinematography. Highly recommended.

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