Opération lune (2002) (TV)

Director:

William Karel

Release Date:

16 October 2002 (France)

Genre:

Drama | Comedy | Documentary

Plot Keywords:

Moon Landing | Mockumentary | Mock Documentary | Apollo 11

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Stanley Kubrick	...	Himself (archive footage)
Richard Nixon	...	Himself (archive footage)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Buzz Aldrin	...	Himself
Loïs Aldrin	...	Herself
Tad Brown	...	David Bowman
Lawrence Eagleburger	...	Himself
Farouk Elbaz	...	Himself
Alexander Haig	...	Himself
Jan Harlan	...	Himself
Richard Helms	...	Himself
Jeffrey Hoffman	...	Himself
Bernard Kirschoff	...	Dimitri Muffley
Henry Kissinger	...	Himself
Christiane Kubrick	...	Herself
Barbara Rogers	...	Eve Kendall
John Rogers	...	Ambrose Chapel
Donald Rumsfeld	...	Himself
Jacquelyn Toman	...	Maria Vargas
Vernon Walters	...	Himself
David Winger	...	Jack Torrance

Also Known As:

Dark Side of the Moon (Australia) (International: English title)

Runtime:

52 min

Country:

France

Language:

French | English

Color:

Color

Company:

Arte France

Trivia:

The origin of the fictitious characters' names: - Jack Torrance - from The Shining (1980) - David Bowman - from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Dimitri Muffley - from Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) (a combination of the names of the two presidents) - Eve Kendall - from North by Northwest (1959) - Marla Vargas - from The Barefoot Contessa (1954) - Ambrose Chapel - centre of the spies' activity in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - W.A. Koenigsberg - a play on Woody Allen's (W.A.) real name, Allen Stuart Koenigsberg. George Kaplan - from North by Northwest (1959)

Movie Connections:

References North by Northwest (1959)

Not great.

I have to write something because I can't let the existing review be the only one. This is not a set of anti-American lies passed off as a documentary; it's a straightforward mockumentary. You were supposed to know that.

That said, the writer gave us a nice little conspiracy theory story, but I really didn't think the results were all that interesting. I felt things turned out kind of stiff in the end. People were too serious about things. Could've used a bit more humor. Forgotten Silver, which comes to mind when discussing this film, shows how a balance could be hit when making a mockumentary of this tone.

On an unrelated note, Chomsky > Moore.