MOON GARDEN (2022) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Ryan Stevens Harris
Haven Lee Harris, Augie Duke, Brionne Davis,
Morgana Ignis, Maria Olsen, Timothy Lee DePriest,
Phillip E. Walker, Angelica Ulloa, Téa Mckay
We're in Guy Maddin territory with this one. It's about a young girl, maybe four or five, who tumbles down a flight of stairs, lands on her head and ends up in a coma. From that point on, it's about what's being processed by the girl's brain: a dream, a hallucination, a nightmare, a long, strange trip through the subconscious and a journey into the light. It's vividly imagined, with creepy sets and weird, frightening characters - the kind of thing that could creep a kid out for life. My first thought was that it might be a good movie to watch on drugs. My second thought was, maybe not.
