'Closer to the Moon' (2015) Movie Critics Review

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Closer to the Moon (2015) Movie Critics Review
Runtime:     112 min
Production:     Mandragora Movies
Genres:     Drama, Comedy
Countries:     USA, Poland, France, Italy, Romania
Languages:     English, Romanian
Director:      Nae Caranfil
Stars:      Vera Farmiga, Mark Strong, Harry Lloyd

Closer to the Moon (2015) Movie Review: A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of old friends from the World War II Jewish Resistance to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.

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At the point when Max Rosenthal .first pitches his four long-lasting comrades on holding up a protected auto in 1959 Bucharest, Alice ., his accessory to-be and mother of his child, thoughtfully comments in voiceover that he's the stand out considering this thought important. That supposition generally as suitably applies to Closer to the Moon's author executive, Nae Caranfil, who strangely swears off the bounteous elegiac parts of his film's real material for a tone approaching the chipper. In spite of the fact that the film is in view of the genuine story of the Ioanid Gang, Jewish erudite people who executed a challenging bank heist inside socialist Romania and were compelled to film a narrative reproducing their theft, Caranfil changes the names of those included, obviously to secure the effectively found-blameworthy, and recounts the story from the perspective of an altogether made-up character, wide-looked at Virgil.


Virgil, an aspiring filmmaker, sees the actual heist in progress, fooled like everyone else into believing—in an emblematic touch—that it's merely a movie shoot. Film possesses the power to influence the masses, which is precisely why the Romanian government forced the real-life players to reenact their nefarious deed, a means of engendering anti-Semitic propaganda by implying the thieves' intended to fund lavish lifestyles. While the genuine motivation for the gang's heist has forever been open to speculation, Closer to the Moon posits that these high-ranking Romanians grew so disillusioned with the autocratic socialist regime that they sought to strike a symbolic blow. It's an intriguing hypothesis, yet one for which Caranfil provides scant evidence.

Though the filmmaker recounts this story through the prism of the documentary's production, he resorts to conspicuous sentimentality, turning the movie set into a light-hearted fairy tale where the director is a "comic" drunk and the prisoners wind up calling the shots. Worse, the government agent (Anton Lesser) on set claims not to even know the robbers' motives, contradicting the real-life recreation's considerable agitprop.

Caranfil isn't so much unable as unwilling to pull back the front of the Potemkin paradise which has apparently caused these characters to lash out, providing no sense of the injustice under which they claim to toil, and offering virtually no insight into the gang's previous lives as supposedly heroic agents of resistance. As such, their presumed gallows humor comes across like careless indifference, marking them less as "Romanian Robin Hoods" than frivolous nihilists who would rather pass on than lead lives of ennui. Given an opportunity to reclaim the gang's narrative, Caranfil disappointingly declines, opting for sugary Hollywood confection. All these years later, once again, they die in vain.

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