Luna (1979)

So much average

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

I don't know why almost everyone writing about this movie talks about "Oedipus complex", "Freudian influence" and similar crap.Nobody pays attention to an enormous sacrifice done to her son's well being by the world-wide famous opera singer!The incest scene shows clearly that Caterina does it not because she feels sexual attraction to her son (to think so to my mind is highly stupid!), but because she wants to save her only child from his drug hell, to give him a bit of love that he missed all the time while she was busy with her singing career. She sacrifices everything - her singing, her career,her peace of mind for WHOM?! Her drug addicted son,nonentity, a piece of junk.Why? She left her egoistic husband in order to sing,but life prepared for her one more tragic obstacle.The end of the movie is a real catharsis - Jill Clayburgh's character acquires holiness in her sacrifice to her son.Finally she returns to her profession when Joe is saved and his real father comes to terms with his former family.A superb film by one of the greatest film-makers of our time.

The first half of this film is a brilliant story about a teenage boy hopelessly lost in a world not of his own making. Torn from familiar surroundings with only his distant mother for support, he turns to drugs to find some kind of "comfort" in his life. However, the second half quickly delves into a bizarre relationship of incest between the boy and his mother. Granted, it was originally to cure him of his drug habit, but she soon begins to like it, and that's when all hell seems to break loose. My rating of 7 stars is simply because the first half was so incredibly wonderful (great plot, good acting, gorgeous Italian scenery). The second half isn't without its charms, too, and the back-and-forth "I love you, I hate you" relationship between the mother and son works well... IF you can overlook the fact that it is, indeed, a mother and son.

Stunning-very, adult,erotic, forbidden, the essence of Jill Clayburn in all her sexuality is truly STUNNINGForget the Puritans who are blinded by the depths of the human swirl of emotions that present themselves to the viewer. What a pleasant surprise to see this actress in a role that surely must tax the strongest level of artistic honesty (sorry about the cinema-babble but I am required to write ten lines).I found myself searching the guide to get another chance to sit through this film again and study it, as there are a number of human situations that complicate a casual viewing of this piece of Cinemasunaj

like very much the musical score (Verdi, Mozart,Bee Gees)), and especially Jill Clayburgh . The drama is excellent and the relation with jo and his mother r very powerfull. one regret: does not exist yet in dvd.