Reseña: Luna's Revenge
In a way, Khaled Kaissar's feature film debut is a bit plain. The bad guys look like them, the BND has a leak (who it is, the viewer knows immediately!) and Luna's grief evaporates within minutes.
Inspired by the real case of a Russian couple of agents who lived camouflaged as a family in Baden-Württemberg for twenty years and whose daughter had no idea what their parents were doing, the excellently photographed thriller focuses entirely on its leading actress and tries to find out what is going on in a 17-year-old girl whose ideal world suddenly no longer exists from one moment to the next and she turns out the previous family idyll as a lie.
Although played convincingly by Lisa Vicari, the change from insecure teenager to a self-confident young woman takes place a little too quickly - which is of course due to the grateful playing time of only ninety minutes. However, one should not overestimate all of this and rather look at Kaissar's film as a kind of finger exercise in genre cinema. And apart from some weaknesses in logic, it was mostly successful.