Adiós querida luna

Three Argentinian astronauts aboard an old fashioned Italian-voicedspaceship who try to blow the moon out… Wow! But this is just thebeginning, the prologue.

After we know their mission, the movie action starts, and also a lot ofsurrealistic gags involving character's relationship and their pasts.Anyway, besides it's sci-fi movie, you shouldn't forget it's also acomedy… with a very particular kind of humor.

I think it's very remarkable the Argentininian patriotic atmosphere, aparody of USA movies, where you can see the flag of Argentinaeverywhere and the astronauts as very keen soccer fans.

Moreover, I found pretty funny a scene I can't describe because it'd bea spoiler, but in that scene you can hear a very, very long string oftypical Argentinian swearwords and profanities.

2) Three Argentinian astronauts are sent to the space with a mission:destroy the moon. But the same government that sent them to such andadventure eventually leaves them on their own, lost, abandoned,floating around the satellite. As time pass by the astronaut’s angerand desire of revenge go stronger and the madness grows, taking each oftheir specific personalities to a demential point of no return.

This movie is naturally polemic. It happens to be a sci-fi movie(visually it’s very well done, specially if you have in mind the lackor resources in its production), but the story is more related to theinner world of the characters. And also it happens to be a comedy, butin my case it didn’t made me laugh out but instead keep a constantsmile, a confused smile, one that still is surprised with the strangeworld that’s being projected. This smile can sometimes turn intolaughter, but it’s a nervous laughter, almost like the one fromUrdapilleta when he watches her colleague sub commander Rodulfo and thealien dancing in the outer space. This kind of combinations, thisstrange vision, is not enjoyable for everyone. I understand people whodoesn’t like it, that leaves the cinema with anger, because they don’tshare at all the tone of the movie. They don’t understand what’s beingtold on the screen, and what they understand they don’t like it anyway,it bothers them. But I understand much more and I identify myselfcompletely with the audience that leaves thankful of having been partof the rare experience this movie invites you to live, full ofcomplicity, with not many explanations. It has wonderful performancesof the actors, great dialogs, it’s perfectly shot and has admirable artdesign and cinematography. A movie that takes the great risk of tellinga story in a different way, and telling also a different kind of story,using other kind of structures. A movie with excesses, relentless withits characters and with Argentina itself, but a film that’s alwaysfunny and surprising.