The success/notoriety of In a Glass Cage enabled Villaronga to raise the budget for a far more ambitious project. His sole essay in fantasy, Moon Child is a visually sumptuous fairy tale for enlightened and open-minded adults. It features a blue-eyed boy with paranormal powers, a secret sect of fascist occultists hidden in a weird villa, and a journey of self-realisation towards an Africa that is a very real and present but also mythical mindscape.
One could also say: Moon Child is a most astonish- and disturbing mix of Marvel Comics (think X-Men) and Aleister Crowley - the film's title is actually derived from a 1917 novel by last century's most influential Satanist; which, again, lends the dedication 'A mi padre' a certain salaciously ambiguous je ne sais quoi...
- Director
- Agustí Villaronga
- Country of production
- Spain
- Year
- 1989
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 118'
- Medium
- 35mm
- International title
- Moon Child
- Language
- Spanish
- Producer
- Julián Mateos
- Production Company
- Ganesh Producciones Cinematográficas
- Sales
- Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA)
- Screenplay
- Agustí Villaronga
- Cinematography
- Jaime Peracaula
- Editor
- Raúl Román
- Production Design
- Francesc Candini
- Sound Design
- José Lumbreras
- Music
- Dead Can Dance
- Cast
- Maribel Martín