Moon Landing
- warm
- gentle
- intimate
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →At six, Dario watched the first Moon landing on TV, sparking a lifelong dream to reach the stars. For the rest of his life, the ingenious curmudgeon built a homemade space rocket on his farm using scraps from the local hardware store. But, after a disastrous first launch burns down the neighbors' cornfields, Dario lands in jail. Enter Mario, his estranged brother who left the dying countryside for the big city: despite the confusion, he agrees to help Italy's 'secret space program' finally take off.
Our read · Moon Landing (2020) reads as a warm, steady, inventive comedy · drama · space entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Moon Landing
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a sweet quirky Italian tale of a man chasing his childhood moon dream.”
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The reading.
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