A ‘True-ish’ FUNeral Party That Dies Before Our Eyes — Original Cin – FilmyVoice
On this hybrid biography and fiction, it’s by no means doable to type out the place truth ends and artistic whimsy begins. (Did Jimmy really try to promote actual property on the moon? Different hucksters have.) What’s extra irritating is the movie’s tone, which whiplashes between New Age sanctimony and juvenile humour.
A few Christian protestors — Richard Riehle as a fanatical clergyman and Galen Howard as his idiotic assistant — are crude caricatures. Then there’s a horned pagan god determine in a tinselly gown who solely Jimmy can see, who pronounces to him that it represents his “instinct.”
Although the unique soundtrack by varied artists has some polished, melancholy ballads, Moon Manor may lose a number of numbers, particularly the one with the rap break: “Take a look at that man. He has the fitting to die …Jimmy’s gonna take flight tonight. And it’s gonna be ah-ah-ah-alright.”
Probably not the final phrases you’ll wish to caress your ears earlier than the dying of the sunshine.
Moon Manor. Written and directed by Erin Granat and Machete Bang Bang. Starring James Carrozo, Debra WIlson, Richard Riehle, Lou Taylor Pucci, Reshma Gajjar, Galen Howard. Moon Manor is out there on video on demand from March 11.
