In the Nazi occupied Rome a gay Jewish producer Davide Rieti (Alfred Molina), a Nazi star Kristina Baumgarten (Catherine McCormack) and a drug addicted, cynical British actor James Clavel (Jonathan Pryce) gather to make a movie based on Tosca as the world breaks around them. Soon crew members are being arrested, Kristina's stalker Marcantonio (Niccolo Senni) commits suicide and the producer himself is in grave troubles when he is threatened by the Nazi's.
The Moon and the Stars is a clever, partly amusing and partly deeply disturbing movie about the World War II occupation and the terrors of being a Jew. And alto the romance between Kristina and James is redundant and rather badly composed the rest of the film is really good. I specially enjoyed the character of Laszlo Molnar, the proud Hungarian director played by Andras Balint. He is funny, enjoyable and really well performed.
RATING: **** (4/5)
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