Loren Taylor’s The Moon Is Upside Down was finished, I think, a couple of years ago. It certainly picked up an award last year at a film festival in Tallin, Estonia of all places.
It’s the latest in that Kiwi format that I might describe as the “gloomy romantic comedy”. I think of recent examples like Nude Tuesday, Millie Lies Low, Bad Behaviour – all neither romantic nor particularly funny.
The Moon Is Upside Down isn’t just one depressing story. There are three, all lightly linked by themes of loneliness, vulnerability, death and, oddly, dead birds.
The first, and most promising, opens on a Russian woman arriving at Auckland Airport.
