Luna **
Dir: Dave McKean. With: Ben Daniels, Dervla
Kirwan, Stephanie Leonidas. 101 mins. Cert: 15
Artist Dave McKean’s
ambitious follow-up to 2005’s underappreciated Neil Gaiman collaboration Mirrormask again combines live-action
with animated elements, only this time fuses them to a far more agonised
narrative: it’s hard work getting to the ideas and images that stick. A reunion
of old university pals at a clifftop retreat unleashes smartly visualised
demons – dead babies, creative blocks – and allows McKean to argue for the
consoling properties of fantasy. Yet there’s a heavy purgative aspect to it:
the drama assumes the look of lumpy, anglicised Bergman, as though this
personal, potentially meaningful material simply hasn’t been processed in the
passage from soul to screen.
Luna opens in selected cinemas from today.
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