![]() It’s meant to be a cathartic moment of discovery, but all I could think was “DAMN, they didn’t fake that. Artemis gets into her father’s ancient Jeep Grand Cherokee, and after some driving difficulties, rams it into the apartment garage’s wall - hard. Artemis doesn’t act like a martyr, even if she seems to struggle with what she’s supposed to do to care for this man she was never all that close to.Ī couple of scenes interrupt the care-giving and coeds exercising in the pool, cutting up as they act out scenes from movies for Charades or play ping-pong. Kokkali is front and center throughout, and doesn’t give us a whole lot to latch onto in her characterization. “Moon” doesn’t necessarily make sense, even if the narrative is perfectly easy to follow and just as easy to “decode,” in terms of guessing “the secret.” ![]() Periodically, chapters of the story are marked by a Tarot card - “Strength,” “The Magician,” etc. The movie tips the viewer that something’s up, and we spend the last 80 minutes of the film figuring out what that might be as Artemis hangs with family, frolics with old friends and overhears her grandmother and aunts and uncles interrogate home health-care workers, a “Last Supper” lineup of chain-smoking Greeks kvetching about “language barriers” when most of the people they interview are Bulgarian or Romanian.Īrtemis voice-over narrates “on today’s date” snippets, “Cleopatra was born….’Catcher in the Rye’ was published” and the like. It’s the conversation that seems trickiest, but the only person Artemis complains to about her new burden is her mother ( Maria Zorba), strangely absent and refusing phone entreaties to come see him and maybe help. Paris ( Lazaros Georgakopoulus) is going to need care and rehab, and that’s largely going to fall on Artemis - getting him about, encouraging him to try to do things for himself, engaging him in conversation and changing his diapers. Set in the 1990s, so that we can wonder if there’s any autobiography in Lentzou’s script and so she can show off those ugly home video aspect ratios in “home movies” voiced-over to establish Artemis (Kokkali, also seen in “Digger”) has been away, that she’s not close to her father, that he’s gone through something that traumatized him and contributed to a stroke which is what brought her back and yet that doesn’t move her emotionally. It’s a self-consciously-filmed soft-spoken drama about family, family responsibilities and family secrets, and truthfully a rather drab affair where the stakes are low and the emotions kept in check for the most part. ![]() A college age daughter returns to Athens to care for her emotionally-distant, now-infirm father in “Moon, 66 Questions,” the latest teaming of writer-director Jacqueline Lentzou with her on-screen alter ego, Sofia Kokkali (“The End of Suffering”).
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