What is Black Moon / Lacombe Lucien about?

: BLACK MOON, 1975, Janus Films, 100 min. Long out of circulation, director Louis Malle’s surrealist fairy tale is available again! 15-year-old Cathryn Harrison flees from a war between men and women, hiding in a manor inhabited by an old lady and a brother and sister (Joe Dallesandro, Alexandra Stewart). Malle conjures dreams - and nightmares - as refuge from the tyranny of modern reality. LACOMBE LUCIEN, 1974, Janus Films, 141 min. Director Louis Malle’s most uncompromising film tracks 18-year-old Lucien (Pierre Blaise), who tries to join the WWII French Resistance. When rejected, he collaborates with the Nazis instead. But his befriending of a Jewish tailor, in hiding with his beautiful daughter, shows this enigmatic character to be more complex.

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What is Black Moon / Lacombe Lucien about?: : BLACK MOON, 1975, Janus Films, 100 min. Long out of circulation, director Louis Malle’s surrealist fairy tale is available again! 15-year-old Cathryn Harrison flees from a war between men and women, hiding in a manor inhabited by an old lady and a brother and sister (Joe Dallesandro, Alexandra Stewart). Malle conjures dreams - and nightmares - as refuge from the tyranny of modern reality.

LACOMBE LUCIEN, 1974, Janus Films, 141 min. Director Louis Malle’s most uncompromising film tracks 18-year-old Lucien (Pierre Blaise), who tries to join the WWII French Resistance. When rejected, he collaborates with the Nazis instead. But his befriending of a Jewish tailor, in hiding with his beautiful daughter, shows this enigmatic character to be more complex.