Nouvelle Lune

Blue Moon is directing debut from Alina Grigore, who also have written the script. I really can't understand why this movie has won any festival, but it has. The movie has really not anything interesting to tell, and I'm sad to say the script is very underdeveloped.

22 year old Irina struggles to achieve a higher education and make an escape her rather dysfunctional family. She seems all inept in her struggle, until a sexual experience with an artist makes a difference in her life. But can she get out of the family's violence?

Irina is so introvert it seem impossible for her to break out of this. Her nephew is written in as mean character, and with no positive sides. I feel this is also something that lessens the movie.

Too bad, but better work with the characters would have made this into a decent movie.

Even if we feel for Irina, we can't really get any feeling of sympathy.