Moon

Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009)

alone, on DVD at 1681 3rd Ave., 2/20/10

7

Clever, dark sci-fi chamber piece, with tinges of horror and echoes of 2001: A Space Odyssey, but with a tone and storyline all its own.  Sam Rockwell, practically the only actor we see, carries the film with an easy magnetism, proving once again that he’s an actor’s actor with the charisma of a movie star.  There’s an existential dimension to Moon, as well as a subtle current of black humor, but mostly it’s just an intriguing, original story, deftly told, with a wonderfully haunting piano theme.