Blue Moon (2002 film)

Blue Moon is an Austrian movie written and directed by Andrea Maria Dusl in 2002. The road movie romantic comedy is Dusls first as a director.

Lonely Johnny teams up with Ignaz Springer, an East German con man who is having trouble adapting to postCommunist Europe, but claims to have business interests in Ukraine shoe importexport. Springer introduces Johnny to a couple of Slovak waitresses and then disappears after selling the car without Johnnys knowledge. Johnny hitchhikes to Ukraine looking for Shirley with only the town Lviv stamped on a strip of photographs as a guide. In Lviv he meets a taxi driver who differs from Shirley only in her hair colour. Jana reveals that she is Shirleys twin sister and they soon become lovers. Jana tells him that Shirleys real name is Dana and that she had left Lviv some months ago after a bout of craziness. Johnny soon discovers that Jana is not being entirely honest with him. And the city is hardly welcoming a gang force him to buy an ordinary brick from them with all the money that he has. He follows Jana to Kiev and finally to Odessa on the Black Sea, where he is also reunited with Springer. The movie ends on a ferry as the blue moon rises and the final scene explains the enigmatic opening scene on the Odessa Steps made famous by The Battleship Potemkin.Dusl sees the love that develops between Johnny and Jana as a metaphor for the relationship between the east and the west. More inspiration for the film may have come from a transatlantic romantic entanglement with an American whom she visited before going into production. ........

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