Moon, 66 Questions

“Moon, 66 Questions” can be unsettling and despairing, but it’s never alienating. It’s about moving past alienation and understanding what connects us.

An elliptical drama that pieces together banal VHS recordings overlaid with spoken diary entries, tense familial encounters, and displays of solitary, existential angst rousingly performed by Kokkali.

Kokkali is compelling. But little else is.

Lentzou is certainly onto a winning formula, but it’s Kokkali and Georgakopoulos’ superb performances that ultimately make up for Moon’s shortcomings.

Kokkali persuasively enacts both the emotional hurt and emotional healing.

The tidal currents of Moon, 66 Questions gently pull us out into an ocean of captivating gaps, ellipses and silences, granting an enormously rich emotional rich experience for those willing to go with its flow.

Jacqueline Lentzou’s directorial debut, Moon, 66 Questions, is a delicate revaluation of two lost souls, in this case, an estranged father and daughter.

Kokkali is onscreen in almost every scene. Conception is one thing, but execution is not guaranteed: she’s the real deal.

Studies, analyzes, and deconstructs familial ties with sensibility and without low blows, becoming 'a film about love, movement, and flow (and lack thereof)' as it touts in its opening credits. [Full review in Spanish]

Lentzou's intelligent gaze on her extraordinary protagonists and the singular cinematography elevates the quotidian to a sensibly moving and visually subduing experience. [Full review in Spanish]