Today's film, the fourth installment, is "Black Moon" by director Louis Malle, whose representative works include "Elevator to the Gallows." It's a very surreal film, not really one to be explained in words, but it's a pleasantly chaotic film.
I first encountered this film when I was in junior high school. Cable television had just been installed at my parents' house, and unlike today with convenient streaming services like Netflix or U-NEXT, I could watch over 100 channels broadcasting foreign films, dramas, and documentaries 24 hours a day. It just happened to be airing then.
I was shocked to encounter this genre of film for the first time.
Unlike the Japanese films and Hollywood movies I was used to, there was no concept of a plot.
Can a film really be established by just a continuous stream of strange, unreal images like something out of a dream? It felt like I had opened the door to the world of art for the first time and was beginning to understand the adult world.
Caught in a war between men and women, talking flowers blooming on the ground, talking rats, and unicorns.
How does the viewer feel? Everyone feels differently, and there's no right or wrong answer.
It's a strange film.
It's a 1975 film and seems to only be available on DVD, but if you're interested, it appears to be sold used on Amazon, so why not look for it?
It's a mysterious film known to those in the know, filled with a strange charm that makes you want to talk about it if you know it.
