Jupiter's Moon
Jupiter holdja
Synopsis
Set in the Europe of tomorrow and is about 17-year-old Ariel, a young boy who is hit by the bullet of an aggressive police officer after attempting to cross the border to Hungary. As a result of the wound, the boy is endowed with a unique ability: he is able to levitate, just like an angel.
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Kornél Mundruczó, on the strength of White God, returned with a dopey Eurothriller, Jupiter’s Moon, that repeated the same dodgy CGI effect—a man floating in the air—like an aging circus performer lingering on his flourish.
Nicolas Rapold
July 03, 2017
How this kind of magic-realist spectacularism helps to improve the lot of immigrants is anybody’s guess.
Nick James
May 23, 2017
Mundruczó has his sights set firmly on Hollywood-scale genre filmmaking, but, either due to lack of funds or vision, his stylistic box of tricks is very limited, and the director is content to show off these few flourishes early and deploy them often. Long, winding, eventful tracking shots of the Emmanuel Lubezki mould crop up constantly, adding quickly-diminishing hyperreal tension to scenes ranging from the refugees’ perilous flight, to simple, mild-simmer thriller-by-numbers dialogue scenes
Michael Leader
May 21, 2017
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