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Plot: Philippe is so immersed in his thesis topic -- the philosophy of scientific culture and how space exploration is motivated by narcissism -- that he absentmindedly builds multi-stage rockets from deskt...( read more read more... )op items and arranges fruit and stones into planetary alignments on his kitchen table. The death of his mother prompts an uneasy truce with estranged, gay younger brother Andre.

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  • bigmate
    bigmate
    4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    June 22, 2008
    This guy - I mean the director - loves himself. I read some papers about Robert Lepage saying that he was narcissic, and his movies too. Far side of the moon is one of those movies. Lepage wrote, directed and acted in it. In the movie, he is the main character, Philippe, but also he plays Philippe's brother, André. This one is a narcissic, bourgeois and hateful character.


    Philippe grew up during the Conquest of Space, the Cold War between U.R.S.S. and U.S.A. He is studying the conquest, doing his thesis about Narcissism in the conquest of the Cosmos. And I don't think it's a coincidence.


    Far side of the Moon gives fresh air to the Quebec cinema industry, not only because of its originality, but also because of the incredible shots. Lepage isn't a man that I admire as an individual...But as a writer and director(he writes and directs plays too. Far side of the Moon was a play before being a movie), I have to admit that he is talented. The shots when Philippe dreams are amazing.


    I'm proud to say that this movie comes from Quebec. One of my top ten Quebec movies.
  • BourbonJ
    BourbonJ
    4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    June 8, 2008
    Robert Lepage... Selon moi c'est le genre de réalisateur que tu aimes. ou que tu n'aimes pas. Faut croire que moi... Je l'aime! Une magnigique Réalisation et jeu d'acteurs.
  • janicklavoie
    janicklavoie
    5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    February 3, 2008
    Une des meilleurs films québécois. Une histoire si bien ficellée. Des belles images, une bon montage et des métaphores très brillantes.
  • onomatopee
    onomatopee
    4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    December 9, 2007
    robert lepage est non seulement un grand réalisateur, mais aussi un très bon acteur. il est donc de mise d'accompagner le tout d'une belle bande sonore!
  • mlcraggs
    mlcraggs
    4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    May 3, 2007
    Robert LePage is the best filmmaker you've never heard of. First Le Confessional, and now Far Side of the Moon which makes me wonder why I don't pay more attention to Quebec.
  • rosekolarich
    rosekolarich
    4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    April 25, 2007
    This is a poetic and genre-defying film. The story would be quite simple: Middle-aged space-geek Phillip (Robert Lepage) comes to terms with his mother's death and repairs his troubled relationship with his gay younger brother (also played by Robert Lepage). But space gets in the way and distorts matters. The spaces between people and the space between the past and the present manifest themselves visually in Phillip's fantasy world. The metaphor of space cleverly permeates the film: from the title 'The Far Side of the Moon' to the space inside a dry-cleaner or a gold-fish bowl. The roof of a concrete building becomes a moonscape and the last scene depicts Phillip looking like a fat cherub doing a strange but lovely space ballet to Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata'.
  • frankjr19
    frankjr19
    4.0 Stars
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    April 24, 2007
    L'oeuvre me gifle, carrément, et se hisse in extremis dans mon top 2 des films québécois. Je n'ai jamais, et quand je dis jamais, c'est jamais, vu un film québécois affichant tant de réalisme et d'audace à la fois, comme le documentaire d'un rêveur qui n'a plus rien à perdre. Robert Lepage est tout simplement incroyable et mérite amplement le titre de personnalité étant parmi les plus influentes dans l'univers artistique au Québec. Franchement, c'est digne des plus grands films québécois, quasi ex-aequo avec Léolo.
  • levealfred
    levealfred
    4.5 Stars
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    January 11, 2007
    I just love Robert Lepage. Wondefully directed & wonderful performance. It's his definitely best movie.
  • jschartrand
    jschartrand
    4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    June 9, 2006
    Extraordinary soundtrack for a great great drama. Big imagination for a dream that transport us away.

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