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Cold Moon

1991 · 92 min

A grim, meandering character study of aimless lives, offering little warmth but a raw, uncomfortable honesty.

Overview
Simon and Dede are best friends: two aimless drunks who spend their days getting sloshed and any other available time getting laid. Simon is living on unemployment benefits in a trailer parked near his sister's apartment. Dede works at a fish-packing plant on the night shift. Neither man is sensitive, young, or good looking. However, their sang-froid (literally, "cold blood," referring to a quality of imperturbability) stands them in good stead as they go about their seedy lives, picking up one woman and having sex with her on the beach, or when Simon calmly has sex with a prostitute in front of the woman's brother. In the past, a bizarre necrophiliac situation led to Simon experiencing his only sense of what it might be to truly love someone.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • addiction
  • loneliness
  • love
  • death
Places
  • small town
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language strong
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour3
Realism8
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness8
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Patrick Bouchitey
Written by
Charles Bukowski, Patrick Bouchitey, Jackie Berroyer
Starring
Jean-François Stévenin, Patrick Bouchitey, Jean-Pierre Bisson, Laura Favali, Silvana de Faria, Karine Nuris, Roland Blanche, Jean-Pierre Castaldi
Music
Didier Lockwood
Cinematography
Jean-Jacques Bouhon
Runtime
92 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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