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When a young woman receives the absurd news from her father that he's had enough of life and wants it to come to an end, she is forced to search for a way to deal with his last wish. When a young woman receives the absurd news from her father that he's had enough of life and wants it to come to an end, she is forced to search for a way to deal with his last wish. When a young woman receives the absurd news from her father that he's had enough of life and wants it to come to an end, she is forced to search for a way to deal with his last wish.
- Floor van der Meulen
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- Julia Akkermans
- Johan Leysen
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Iris (Julia Akkermans) has a normal middle-class Dutch life, and stays in touch with her aged father and her brother’s family. But everything regular and controllable gets overturned when her father Jan (Johan Leysen) announces that after his 75th birthday, he is going to take his own life. He’s not sick, either mentally or physically; rather his decision seems to him a logical solution to a nagging problem: from here on, life will only decrease in quality and increase in suffering.
The children are shocked, upset, dumbfounded. But while her brother Ivan (Eelco Smits) eventually gets down to scheduling his father’s suicidal proceedings, Iris remains in limbo, completely unmoored and unable to argue with her father’s resolute reasoning. This is fundamentally not something we can discuss and appreciate from different angles in polite conversation over wine or while doing the dishes. To Iris, it’s unnecessary, traumatic, and insane.
There’s a moment in Pink Moon that perfectly encapsulates the complex psychological effects this premise has on its main character. At one point, the family gets out of the car with Iris in the backseat, but the child lock stops her from opening the door, leaving her struggling and stuck while everyone else continues without her. It’s a striking, amusing moment of childishness, with Iris reduced to an infantile status in her inability to process her dad’s premature passing. She is stuck grieving someone who’s still alive—and Pink Moon surprisingly wants to make it as funny as possible.
It’s likely you’ll spend the first act of Pink Moon reflecting that 75 is a bit young to want out of life, before realising it’s these preheld principles that director Floor van der Meulen wants to challenge. There are no set rules for human life. Rather, we internalise tons of cultural beliefs that can reduce the agency and quality of life for elderly or unwell people. Van der Meulen’s film handles these confronting ideas with a nimble awkwardness, with Emo Weemhoff’s cinematography picking up every elongated silence in lengthy, hand-held shots (both van der Meulen and Weemhoff have experience with documentary filmmaking).
But the aesthetic choices take a backseat to the writing and characters—or rather, they support them. Working from Bastiaan Kroeger’s taut, incisive screenplay, van der Meulen often frames our characters in empty rooms, dwarfed by pieces of furniture or cramped with someone in a bathroom stall. The style emphasises performances that manage to balance nuance and delicacy with arresting, funny personality.
Akkermans shines when showcasing Iris’ immaturity, leaning into each and every moment of passive-aggression like her life depended on it—whether it’s marking her territory on family belongings as if her sheet of stickers were a war flag, or over-enthusiastically guiding a prospective buyer around Jan’s home. We see here how much strain there is for her to “go with the flow”; she’s singled out in rejecting everyone else’s quiet conformity, and like an angsty teenager, rebels against parental authority once more.
But maybe, van der Meulen argues, you can find peace in such a situation. Realising that you can’t change someone’s mind helps you let go of the urgent panic you feel by trying.
In response, Leysen deftly illustrates how familiar Jan is with all his daughter’s erratic behavioural turns. He has, after all, gone through her childhood already. When he has to collect her from a fast food chain she slept in after a spiralling night out, he walks to her with the heavy sympathetic disappointment many of us remember from drunken youthful displays. He’s willing to humour some unhealthy impulses, remaining resolute about ending his life, but also willing to give people room to struggle with his choice.
It’s a process hindered by a lack of actual, honest communication. There’s so much that’s unspoken between father and daughter in every scene they share; having two characters unwilling to communicate their true feelings results in a tension that makes every supporting character feel completely secondary.
It’s something Pink Moon ’s narrative also seems aware of; the film’s third act sheds all unnecessary characters and displaces father and daughter to snowy mountains where their volatile dynamic can be confronted in a way it couldn’t back in stiflingly regular society. But now that there are no distractions, this sequence only confirms a distance between Jan and Iris, visualised in a pane of frosted glass being fitted between the two characters, making her father forever distorted and opaque to her. But maybe, van der Meulen argues, you can find peace in such a situation. Realising that you can’t change someone’s mind helps you let go of the urgent panic you feel by trying.
Who’s really being selfish in Pink Moon ? Is it Jan by not considering the wishes of those who love him, or Iris who wants his death to be on her terms, in a way she can control? Jan is clearly framed as someone with more honour, distinction, and clear-mindedness; Iris is rendered a whimpering, tantruming child. But to judge who is being unreasonable in Pink Moon is to assess from a distance an incredibly emotionally charged dilemma, one that objective reason or logic cannot help. Instead, Pink Moon relishes in thorniness and discomfort, arguing that these are the truest, most human responses.
Even though she ultimately doesn’t get what she wants, Iris ends up most able to process her father’s impending death. For all his careful planning and unaffected attitude, Ivan breaks at the last moment from the strain of keeping his emotions in check and can’t be present for Jan’s suicide. There’s shades of a crisis of masculinity in him, a rejection of vulnerability that is ultimately ill-fitting for processing Jan’s death, whereas Iris, in her untempered stropping, is more secure.
Iris stays with Jan to the end, not without showing one last burst of resistance by blocking Jan’s path to his deathbed—a piece of slapstick her father turns into a comic waltz. It’s an incredibly affecting image, watching a stubborn child stand in the way of the beloved parent who wants to leave them. How else should we react when faced with the thought that we’re not enough to make someone want to stay? Pink Moon doesn’t seek to answer that, instead encouraging us to feel as freely as possible, in the hopes that chaos and immaturity can help prepare us for the worst.
Pink Moon made its UK premiere at the 2023 Glasgow Film Festival. Read our exclusive interview with Floor van der Meulen here.
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Directed by Floor van der Meulen
Till your wish do us part
A young woman struggles to cope with her elderly father's out-of-the-blue announcement he considers his life complete and will end it by his next birthday.
Julia Akkermans Johan Leysen Eelco Smits Anniek Pheifer Sinem Kavus Mariana Aparicio Torres Glenn Coenen Ruben de Goede Gusta Geleijnse Jenny Hsia Urmie Plein Claire Schuyffel Bruno Prent Jaap Spijkers Ama Tarenskeen Jolanda van den Berg Martijn van der Veen Loek Willemsen Sara Luna Zoric
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Floor van der Meulen
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Koji Nelissen Derk-Jan Warrink Jožko Rutar Miha Černec Marina Blok
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Bastiaan Kroeger
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Marina Wijn
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Mieneke Kramer
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Emo Weemhoff
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Pascalle Kleingeld
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Monica Petit
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Trudy Buren
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粉月亮, Różowy księżyc, 不跟爸爸說再見, Růžový měsíc, Rožnata luna
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the melancholy of a final goodbye - even when expected, stings no less, though perhaps even more. time is never enough; no amount of preparation can ease the sorrow. but if there is any comfort from the inevitability of the pink moon which comes for us all, it is that we have had a chance for one last farewell, and a semblance of closure which we will desperately need. we grieve because we love, and this is why we say goodbye.
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That hangover meal of a medium coffee and 2 buckets of KFC chicken must have gone straight to my heart.
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Floor van der Meulen's first narrative feature is stunning visually and emotionally. Two adult siblings have to come to terms with their father's desire to die before his body starts to deteriorate. It's a familiar plot at this point mostly because it's still illegal in a majority of countries. But Pink Moon has a fluidity and grace to it that's undeniable.
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I saw this in the cinema waiting patiently for Pink Moon by Nick Drake to play and as an hour and 35 minutes went by I was left disappointed. The film itself made up for it though, an intimate and heartwarming dramedy about a subject that isn’t talked often enough given how intriguing it is.
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The film "Pink Moon" is a story of farewell and a tribute to life.
SYNOPSIS: "Pink Moon" is a drama directed by Floor van der Meulen, starring Julia Akkermans, Johan Leysen, and Eelco Smits.
When Iris unexpectedly learns that her father, Jan, has had enough of life and wants to die, she is forced to come to terms with the absurdity of the situation. As the fateful date approaches, Iris decides to ignore her brother's foolproof action plan and persuade her father to answer the question that is important to her: Why?
OPINION: Director Floor van der Meulen, born in 1989, studied Audiovisual Design in Rotterdam and New York. Her documentaries and TV productions have received international…
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During the small hours of October 30, 1971, and again the following night, Nick Drake entered Sound Techniques studio in Chelsea to record his third, and final, album. Pink Moon was a quiet revolt. While Drake’s first two albums, Five Leaves Left (1969) and Bryter Layter (1971), were lush, orchestrated, beautifully arranged, Pink Moon was stripped bare. The only person present other than Drake during the sessions was Sound Techniques owner and engineer John Wood . Save for a brief, simple piano overdub on the title track, the album featured just Drake’s voice and guitar. The 11 songs spanned a mere 28 minutes. To describe Pink Moon as stark is to undersell its radical minimalism.
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“ Five Leaves Left was very easy,” recalls Joe Boyd , who signed Drake to his Witchseason roster in 1968 and produced the first two records. “ Bryter Layter was more rushed and Nick and I clashed over his vision. He had this idea that each side would start and end with an instrumental. I felt it was a bit MOR. The moment Bryter Layter was done, Nick turned to me and said, ‘I’m going to do my next album with just guitar and voice.’ I took it as a rebuke.”
In the 50 years since its release on February 25, 1972, Pink Moon has slowly become one of the most mythologised records of the 20th century. It has become synonymous with Drake’s decline and death, on November 25, 1974, aged 26, from an overdose of antidepressants. It is hard to unravel its sadness from the sadness of his life – yet the album is also luminous, uncannily beautiful, limitless in its scale and scope.
Though commercially unsuccessful at the time, Pink Moon wasn’t released into a void. Island Records pushed the LP with full-page ads in the music weeklies and it was widely reviewed. There was a sense, however, that critics had tired of Drake’s reticence. His reluctance to play live was already notorious, and the unvarnished sound of the record seemed a further act of wilful self-sabotage. “Maybe it’s time Mr Drake stopped acting so mysteriously and started getting something properly organised for himself,” snapped Jerry Gilbert , previously a champion of Drake , in Sounds.
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“Fly Me to the Moon” lurches wildly from zippy, retro rom-com to cynical political satire to weighty, remorseful drama and back again. Tonally messy and overlong, director Greg Berlanti ’s film ultimately squanders the considerable charms of its A-list stars, Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum , who are individually appealing but have zero chemistry with each other.
Johansson is especially charismatic here as Kelly Jones , a late-’60s ad executive who gets plucked from a Manhattan agency to sell the space program to the American people. She’s Don Draper in a pink pencil skirt – and all hail costume designer Mary Zophres, the longtime Coen brothers' collaborator, who has amassed a truly dazzling array of mid-century chic ensembles for these actors to wear. The shadowy government figure who approaches Kelly in a bar about the gig ( Woody Harrelson , playfully menacing in a fedora) comments on how useful her beauty is in her line of work. But her ability to read people and figure out what makes them tick makes her even more formidable.
Watching Kelly transform herself from one moment to the next into whoever she needs to be to get her way provides the primary source of joy in Berlanti’s film, based on a screenplay by Rose Gilroy . Is she a compulsive liar? Perhaps. But she’s also extremely good at her job.
Which is why her supposed romantic connection with Tatum’s launch director Cole Davis makes no sense, beyond the fact that these are both inordinately gorgeous people. Kelly and Cole meet cute one night in the neon glow of a Cocoa Beach, Florida, diner; the next day, they have an awkward moment straight out of “ Top Gun ” when they realize they’ll be forced to work together. But Cole wants no part of Kelly’s shenanigans; a brilliant pilot who should have been an astronaut himself, he’s all business, and he remains consumed by the tragedy of Apollo 1 even as the Apollo 11 moon mission looms large on the horizon. He's kind of a drag.
Snappy banter is crucial to this kind of screwball romantic comedy. “Fly Me to the Moon” aims for the kind of sparks we’ve enjoyed in all those Rock Hudson and Doris Day classics. Here, it often feels like Johansson and Tatum are in entirely different movies. She’s effervescent and fearless; he’s stoic and apprehensive. Interestingly, Chris Evans originally was meant to play Cole, and would have been a much better fit, only partly because he and Johansson are longtime friends in real life. There’s a lightness required here that Tatum can’t seem to summon, although that's also because it's missing on the page. And later in the film, when Kelly and Cole sit down to reveal their demons to each other, the movie grinds to a halt for these tedious exposition dumps.
Cole would be particularly irate to learn that part of Kelly’s assignment includes hiring a director and actors to fake the moon landing on a soundstage in case the real one fails. This, of course, has been a conspiracy theory for decades, including the notion that Stanley Kubrick himself was at the helm – the inspiration for a couple of flat, throwaway jokes here. Jim Rash chews up the scenery as a wildly flamboyant but frustrated filmmaker who finally gets the chance to show off his artistry, even if no one can know about it. He definitely knows what movie he’s in – or at least, what movie this could have been.
From here, “Fly Me to the Moon” gets bogged down in multiple endings, with a back-and-forth as to what’s real and what’s fake that eventually becomes jumbled. It keeps going and going past what might have been a natural conclusion, spelling out motivations and developments that would have been more intriguing if they’d been left to our imagination. Berlanti’s movie is far more effective as an upbeat farce than a poignant drama, and at well over two hours, the last 30 minutes or so feel like an eternity.
Capable supporting players like Ray Romano and Anna Garcia can only do so much through all these highs and lows with the thin characters they’re given. And Colin Jost of “Saturday Night Live” – who happens to be Johansson’s husband – is truly terrible in the briefest of cameos as a senator she’s trying to woo for his support. It’s such a hammy performance, though, that it almost seems intentional.
Still, this scene is indicative of the confusion that serves as the film’s wobbly throughline. Is this a comedy or a drama? Is it nostalgia or historical critique? Things keep catching on fire amid the chaos of “Fly Me to the Moon,” and maybe that’s the most apt metaphor of all.
Christy Lemire
Christy Lemire is a longtime film critic who has written for RogerEbert.com since 2013. Before that, she was the film critic for The Associated Press for nearly 15 years and co-hosted the public television series "Ebert Presents At the Movies" opposite Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, with Roger Ebert serving as managing editor. Read her answers to our Movie Love Questionnaire here .
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132 minutes
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Pink Moon: Directed by Floor van der Meulen. With Julia Akkermans, Johan Leysen, Eelco Smits, Anniek Pheifer. When a young woman receives the absurd news from her father that he's had enough of life and wants it to come to an end, she is forced to search for a way to deal with his last wish.
Pink Moon (2022) Pink Moon (2022) Pink Moon (2022) Pink Moon (2022) View more photos Movie Info. Synopsis When completely out of the blue Iris (29) is told by her father Jan (74) that he has had ...
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Van der Meulen's film handles these confronting ideas with a nimble awkwardness, with Emo Weemhoff's cinematography picking up every elongated silence in lengthy, hand-held shots (both van der Meulen and Weemhoff have experience with documentary filmmaking). But the aesthetic choices take a backseat to the writing and characters—or rather ...
Pink Moon Review. Pink Moon (2022) Film Review from the 21st Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie directed by Floor van der Meulen, written by Bastiaan Kroeger and starring Julia Akkermans, Johan ...
Review: Pink Moon. by Fabien Lemercier. 14/06/2022 - With a perfectly transparent first feature, Floor van der Meulen dives subtly and without excessive heaviness into the heart of respect for free will in the choice to live or die. Johan Leysen and Julia Akkermans in Pink Moon. "I love you, but I have to tell you something and I hope you will ...
A Pink Moon movie review from the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival. This Pink Moon review is for the 2022 movie directed by Floor van der Meulen and starring Julia...
The film "Pink Moon" is a story of farewell and a tribute to life. SYNOPSIS: "Pink Moon" is a drama directed by Floor van der Meulen, starring Julia Akkermans, Johan Leysen, and Eelco Smits. When Iris unexpectedly learns that her father, Jan, has had enough of life and wants to die, she is forced to come to terms with the absurdity of the ...
Review: Pink Moon. With a perfectly transparent first feature, Floor van der Meulen dives subtly and without excessive heaviness into the heart of respect for free will in the choice to live or die . 14/06/2022 | Tribeca 2022
Pink Moon is a film directed by Floor van der Meulen with Julia Akkermans, Johan Leysen, Eelco Smits, Anniek Pheifer, Sinem Kavus. Year: 2022. Original title: Pink Moon. Synopsis: When a young woman receives the absurd news from her father that he's had enough of life and wants it to come to an end, she is forced to search for a way to deal with his last wish.You can watch Pink Moon through on ...
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Released , 'Pink Moon' stars Julia Akkermans, Johan Leysen, Eelco Smits, Anniek Pheifer The movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 35 min, and received a user score of 71 (out of 100) on TMDb, which ...
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A young woman struggles to cope with her elderly father's out-of-the-blue announcement he considers his life complete and will end it by his next birthday. Floor van der Meulen. Director. Bastiaan Kroeger.
As a family from a politically and physically divided island, Meray and her father developed extremely opposite views to each other. She travels from Scotland back to her childhood home - to the garden where she once had nightmares of the conflict. Now it's blossoming with fruit trees that her father grows, acting as the conversational middle ground for the deeper problems of the relationship ...
By Anthony DeCurtis. February 17, 2000. Pink Moon is folk icon Nick Drake 's third and last full album — and at less than 30 minutes, it can seem as starkly foreshortened as the singer's ...
Not many theses days Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/19/24 Full Review Steven It was a good movie about the Moon landing. It brought a different twist to the historic narrative.
the melancholy of a final goodbye - even when expected, stings no less, though perhaps even more. time is never enough; no amount of preparation can ease the sorrow. but if there is any comfort from the inevitability of the pink moon which comes for us all, it is that we have had a chance for one last farewell, and a semblance of closure which ...
When a young woman receives the absurd news from her father that he's had enough of life and wants it to come to an end, she is forced to search for a way to deal with his last wish.
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Pink Moon was a quiet revolt. While Drake's first two albums, Five Leaves Left (1969) and Bryter Layter (1971), were lush, orchestrated, beautifully arranged, Pink Moon was stripped bare.
Als Iris volkomen onverwachts van haar vader Jan te horen krijgt dat hij genoeg heeft van het leven en ermee wil stoppen, wordt ze gedwongen de totale absurd...
"Fly Me to the Moon" lurches wildly from zippy, retro rom-com to cynical political satire to weighty, remorseful drama and back again. Tonally messy and overlong, director Greg Berlanti's film ultimately squanders the considerable charms of its A-list stars, Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, who are individually appealing but have zero chemistry with each other.
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