CineVegas 2009 Preview: ‘Moon’

CineVegas 2009 is right around the corner (next week to be precise), and We Are Movie Geeks are going to be there in full force. Throughout the festival, which runs from June 10th through the 15th, we are going to be bringing you all the coverage you need including reviews, interviews, party breakdowns, and red carpet premiere coverage.

Having already screened to ecstatic audiences at the Sundance, SXSW and Tribeca Film Festivals, ‘Moon’ is still going strong as one of the absolute must-see movies of the year and one of the most original and powerful science-fiction films in many years.

Here is the film’s official synopsis:

Nearing the end of a three-year contract with Lunar Industries, Sam Bell will soon be returning to Earth. The lone occupant of a lunar mining base, Sam monitors the moon’s harvest for helium energy. Buoyed by transmissions from his wife and young daughter, he combats isolation by interacting with the station’s robotic computer. But Sam is beginning to unravel. After a hallucination causes his lunar rover to crash, Sam realizes that his life here is not what it seems.

MOON is a philosophical and touching inflection on a genre that often loses sight of story amid the special effects. Director Duncan Jones creates an intimate and insightful character piece anchored by Sam Rockwell’s performance; his perceptivity contains the emotional heartache and existential terror of a man gradually stripped of his core identity. So even the visual design and technology, MOON is less about outer than it is about inner space.

After seeing this trailer, you should be on a flight already to Las Vegas and in line at the CineVegas box office to purchase your tickets to the one and only screening of ‘Moon’ during the festival. A great dramatic story, an Oscar-worthy performance from Sam Rockwell and the voice of Kevin Spacey as Robot… it’s a winning combination!

‘Moon’ will screen on Thursday, June 11 at 2:00 pm.