Far Side of the Moon Reviews

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

While the slow pace is a burden on some of what happens...,there is a beating pulse in "Far Side of the Moon." It's as wondrous as the imaginative tales we all read as kids.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Lepage is such an interesting camera subject, you stick with this dreamy rumination even when the going gets arch.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Lepage maintains a leisurely pace and lets the narrative wander, but ultimately lands on the right side of the line between contemplative noodling and aimless navel-gazing, ending with an image that's simultaneously melancholy and playful.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

In this gorgeous, high-definition DV drama, its stage roots are obscured by arresting images in this tale of outer space, sibling rivalry, and one man's struggle to find his destiny.

| Original Score: 3/4

The Far Side of the Moon is a master class on turning a talky, one-man play into a visual delight.

| Original Score: 3/4

It takes about 28 days for the moon to orbit the earth and approximately 60 minutes for Far Side of the Moon to reveal its full splendor.

| Original Score: 3/5

Reworking his own raw material, Lepage spins a rich, moving film that acknowledges humanity's power to break out of Earth's daily gravity; in the process, he leaves audiences floating.

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Far Side of the Moon imbues the weightiest issues of human existence with a zero-gravity grace and charm.

| Original Score: 4/4

Lepage brings a prodigious talent for startling, interwoven imagery to bear on a story already laden with metaphorical possibilities.

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An achingly eloquent rumination on our place in the universe.

Lepage's films are always reflections of a curious mind, which constantly puzzles at the absurdity of a life where science, politics and the arts compete for attention with the mundane existence of daily life.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The moon in Far Side of the Moon shows its smiling, symbolic face in the very first frame.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Lepage's adaptation of his own stage play distills his typically grandiose ideas and visual quirks into a masterfully cohesive and entertaining film.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

As a film, this is Lepage's smoothest, richest, most complete effort.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

The film may be best appreciated by those who've seen the stage version.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

As an actor, Lepage is a captivating presence, easily transforming from one sibling to the other. And as a director, he braids the personal and the universal with dexterity, turning theatrical intimacy into cinematic ecstasy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

In essence, Lepage has remade 2001: A Space Odyssey without the Kubrick film's sense of spiritual curiosity.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Strikingly visual and thoughtfully moving, and also ponderous and pretentious.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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