THE MOON IS UPSIDE DOWN
Sat
2
Sat 2 Nov 6:20 PM
Dendy Coorparoo Cinema 1
Allocated Seating
100 Mins
A mail-order bride from Siberia, the lonely wife of a wealthy property investor, and an anaesthetist looking for romance, are the engaging central characters in this sharply observed slice-of-life set around Wellington
Three very different women's lives fleetingly intersect as they search for belonging in an upside down world.Natalia, a mail-order bride from Siberia, arrives in Aotearoa to discover that her dream of running a café at her new husband’s remote petrol station, is far from reality. Anaesthetist Briar lives in exhausted chaos, cheered up by an online relationship with her elder sister’s ex boyfriend Tim. Their romantic weekend away disintegrates when Briar hits and injures a kahu in the middle of nowhere and is determined to keep it alive. Faith is shocked when she discovers that a block of flats she purchased on behalf of her absent husband, included a dead tenant in its chattels. Driven by her empathy for Rita’s lonely death, Faith is determined to find a way to honour Rita’s life
Three very different women's lives fleetingly intersect as they search for belonging in an upside down world.Natalia, a mail-order bride from Siberia, arrives in Aotearoa to discover that her dream of running a café at her new husband’s remote petrol station, is far from reality. Anaesthetist Briar lives in exhausted chaos, cheered up by an online relationship with her elder sister’s ex boyfriend Tim. Their romantic weekend away disintegrates when Briar hits and injures a kahu in the middle of nowhere and is determined to keep it alive. Faith is shocked when she discovers that a block of flats she purchased on behalf of her absent husband, included a dead tenant in its chattels. Driven by her empathy for Rita’s lonely death, Faith is determined to find a way to honour Rita’s life
