Favourites of the Moon

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Favourites of the Moon

1984

1h 41m

Crime

Drama

Comedy

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This film, set in Paris, focuses on a group of random characters who intermingle in various ways when they come into contact with a piece of 18th-century china and a 19th-century painting. These objects are possessed, if but for a brief time, by thieves, a terrorist, a police chief, a teacher, punk musicians, prostitutes, aristocrats and many others, with each character forced to reflect on existential dilemmas before the object passes to another.

Vincent Canby

New York Times

You can laugh with it, if you're willing to believe that the film makers are as witty as they keep announcing without demonstrating, or you can be awestruck by the amount of care, money and talent that appear to have been spent for so little effect.

Feb 10, 2020

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Chris Peachment

Time Out

What unifies the episodes is a patient moral scourging of our greed and futile desires; but where the British would use satire, this opts for the French form of Tatiesque anarchy and fun. And fun it certainly is.

Feb 10, 2020

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Mark Le Fanu

Sight & Sound

Les Favoris de la Lune fascinates by its opacity.

Feb 10, 2020

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

An absurdist, elliptical film that demonstrates the joyful, naive, disjointed and often apathetic nature of human interaction and existence.

Rated: 4/5

Nov 4, 2020

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TV Guide Staff

TV Guide

Though it revolves around certain classical themes and structures, Favorites Of The Moon takes off in a number of different directions simultaneously, seemingly haphazardly, but actually with a specific, though obscure, structure.

Rated: 3.5/5

Apr 4, 2011

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Spirituality & Practice

Otar Iosseliani's idiosyncratic French movie Favorites of the Moon is a charming and consistently interesting meditation on the bizarre twists of fate that draws people and possessions together and then apart again.

Feb 18, 2011

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chris k

'Les favoris de la lune' is a strange film: its story remains opaque through the very end, though some motifs can sometimes be revealed. Its incomprehensibility is undoubtedly annoying, or even tiring, but the film remains surprisingly charming throughout and eventually succeeds in creating a cohesive work.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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'Les Favoris de la lune' is the first French film by Georgian born director Otar Iosseliani. There's not much point trying to explain the plot, because really there isn't much of one. The best way to describe it would be to say it's like Altman's 'Short Cuts', only Parisian style. The film follows a wealth of different characters from terrorists to New Wave singers. What does link all these characters together though is that they all seem to have something to do with an 18th century dinner set and a 19th century painting. Admittingly some of the episodes were rather funny but I'll also admit I was a little disappointed, especially since Iosseliani's earlier work looks so good. That said, it's still worth watching if you get the chance.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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Synopsis

This film, set in Paris, focuses on a group of random characters who intermingle in various ways when they come into contact with a piece of 18th-century china and a 19th-century painting. These objects are possessed, if but for a brief time, by thieves, a terrorist, a police chief, a teacher, punk musicians, prostitutes, aristocrats and many others, with each character forced to reflect on existential dilemmas before the object passes to another.

Director: Otar Iosseliani
Producer: Philippe Dussart
Screenwriter: Gérard Brach, Otar Iosseliani
Genre: Crime, Drama, Comedy
Original Language: Canadian French
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 22, 2016
Runtime: 1h 41m

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