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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 Times (UK) 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. Rated: 3/5 Nov 12, 2015 Full Review Nev Pierce Empire Magazine Caranfil's unlikely, odd little film is quietly moving - all the more so because it is true. Rated: 4/5 Nov 12, 2015 Full Review Jordan Hoffman Guardian 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. Rated: 3/5 Apr 17, 2015 Full Review Joe Bendel Epoch Times 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. Rated: 4/5 May 20, 2016 Full Review David Aldridge Radio Times The story is so quintessentially Romanian, it had better been made in Romanian, with Romanian actors. Rated: 2/5 Nov 12, 2015 Full Review Hannah McGill The List 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. Rated: 2/5 Nov 9, 2015 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Excellent and entertaining black comedy/drama loosely based on real events. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member fun but touching story. Love it! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member 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! Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Wonderful movie, wonderful script, wonderful actors - incredible story! How come it´s gotten this ratting? Somebody explain the rating to me? Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Nae Caranfil

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Vera Farmiga

Alice

Mark Strong

Max Rosenthal

Harry Lloyd

Virgil

Anton Lesser

Holban

Joe Armstrong

Razvan

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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
Screenwriter
Nae Caranfil
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 2, 2017
Runtime
1h 50m
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