The Moon Is Upside Down

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"Though described by its director - also the screenwriter and one of the three central characters - as "existential cathartic dramedy" TMIUD is essentially a series of self-congratulatory sneers at, well, everyone who isn't an indy New Zealand actor: poor people who have dowdy houses with retro shlock; rich people who are vapid; foreign people with horrible life stories who are either oracular or delusional; a whole string of pathetic men; and what's meant to be, I think, a sort of kitsch variation on gritty realism but, again, just comes across as entitled and callous. The..."