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Closer to the Moon

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Criminals stage a bank robbery by pretending it's for a movie shoot.

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Ed Potton The Times (UK) 11/12/2015
3/5
It's always a pleasure to see Mark Strong in a lead role -- too often he's wasted as baddies and bosses. In Closer to the Moon he gets his most interesting part in a while. Go to Full Review
Nev Pierce Empire Magazine 11/12/2015
4/5
Caranfil's unlikely, odd little film is quietly moving - all the more so because it is true. Go to Full Review
Jordan Hoffman Guardian 04/17/2015
3/5
There are a lot of moving moments in this film, and it's to writer-director Nae Caranfil's credit that he's able to tease out the logic in this mostly enjoyable, if a little all-over-the-place, dark comedy. Go to Full Review
Joe Bendel Epoch Times 05/20/2016
4/5
All the major facts of Moon are historically accurate, but the reasons behind the events remain a bit murky. However, Caranfil's speculations are more than persuasive. Go to Full Review
David Aldridge Radio Times 11/12/2015
2/5
The story is so quintessentially Romanian, it had better been made in Romanian, with Romanian actors. Go to Full Review
Hannah McGill The List 11/09/2015
2/5
It has some moments that effectively convey the weirdness with which it deals; but for the most part it's a missed opportunity, marred by a lack of narrative conviction and tonal cohesion. Go to Full Review
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12/10/2018 Excellent and entertaining black comedy/drama loosely based on real events. See more 01/27/2017 fun but touching story. Love it! See more 01/23/2017 The group of jews could not live peacefully after the war. They were heroes of the country but still jews, hence easily expendable. When several of the group just got that, they brew a plot to disparage the government at the risk of their lives. They got everything they wanted including.... but I'll leave that out of my comment, the film is worth watching. I still can't help thinking though that psychopathy is the annoying robotisation keeping the world a hellish place. Viva la revolutione! See more 10/26/2016 It's more quirky than anything else to begin with, but that's only until you unravel what's going on with the story. Some of the broad British accents are a little off-putting too until this time. However once the drama of this Communist era heist gets going it does become engrossing. See more 08/14/2016 A band of Romanian freedom fighters pull the crime of the century in this gripping heist film based on an incredible true story. Bucharest, 1959: with anti-Semitism on the rise, a group of Jewish WWII resistance members, led by a police inspector (The Imitation Game's Mark Strong) and an academic (Academy Award-nominee Vera Farmiga), reteam for an audacious act of political agitation. Posing as a movie crew, they hold up the Romanian National Bank by making it look like a film shoot. But what comes next is even more unbelievable when the group is handed down a punishment as outlandish as their crime. See more 12/19/2015 Wonderful movie, wonderful script, wonderful actors - incredible story! How come it´s gotten this ratting? Somebody explain the rating to me? See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Criminals stage a bank robbery by pretending it's for a movie shoot.
Director
Nae Caranfil
Producer
Michael Fitzgerald, Denis Friedman, Alessandro Leone, Bobby Paunescu, Renata Ranieri
Screenwriter
Nae Caranfil
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 2, 2017
Runtime
1h 50m
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