One Full Moon

After many years in prison a man returns to his town of birth. The memories from his childhood, which culminate in the inexplicable murder of a young girl, are portrayed through flashbacks. The man walks through the town, the same way he walked as a boy. In the moonlight he walks to the lake where the murder took place. Ghostly memories brood over the little village where the boy and his mother lived in poverty. Influenced by his mother's religious conviction, the boy is more and more obsessed by rituals and symbols.
Comment:
The purpose of the form in One Full Moon is to emphasize the main character's compulsory relation to the symbols and rituals of Christianity.
We meet a man who, after a long period of imprisonment, packs his few possessions to return to the village of his childhood. His years in the village are shown through a series of flashbacks and memories that culminate in the inexplicable murder of a young girl- the crime for which he was once imprisoned.
We get to know the boy's mother, who has no expectations from life whatsoever and endures only through her deep religious
conviction that peace and salvation await her after death. The boy, strongly influenced by his mother's belief, develops a fascination which among other things finds expression in powerful and convincing images of angels that show themselves to him in his dreams and fantasies; notions which worsen and deepen his feeling of guilt.
The visual aesthetic and the motifs bring to mind Bresson's films of the late 60's
(Au Hasard Balthasar, Mouchettel. One is also reminded of those films by Bernardo Bertolucci and the T aviani brothers that investigate the relationship between Marxist dialectics and Christian myth.
Endaf Emlyn's story is socially and culturally conscious, while at the same time being personal and subjective. And it is in fact the dialectics between the political and the private that make up the foundation for the structure of One Full Moon.
Pietro Maglio

Orig. titel
Un Nos Ola Leuad: Medverkande
Dyfan Roberts, Tudor Roberts, Betsan Llwyd: Producent
Pauline Williams: Manus
Gwenlyn Parry, Endaf Emlyn: Foto
Ashley Rowe: Talat språk
Welsh