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‘Moon’ Review: A Former MMA Fighter’s Dream Job Comes With a Dark Side in Slow-Burn Thriller
Directed by Kurdwin Ayub, the slow-burn thriller unfolds across small town Austria and the ultra-wealthy in Jordan.
Unfolding in two very different locations, “ Moon,” the elliptical second feature from Iraq-born Austrian filmmaker Kurdwin Ayub(“Sun”) follows a mixed martial arts fighter who has reached the end of her competitive career. Her bourgeois older sister Bea (Tanya Ivankovic), a new mother, urges her to make a business plan; but instead, Sarah jumps at a job offer from slick Arab businessman Abdul (Omar Almajali) that whisks her away from her current stresses into the patriarchal sphere of the Middle Eastern mega-wealthy: a space with its own problems, especially for young, unmarried women. The naturalistic camerawork of DoP Klemens Hufnagl (who shot Sudabeh Mortezai’s “Joy” and “Europa”) keeps a tight focus on Sarah and contrasts the visual differences between Austria and Jordan.
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