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The Man Who Bought the Moon (2018)

The Man Who Bought the Moon poster
Original title
L'uomo che comprò la luna
Directed by
Paolo Zucca
Genre
comedy film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 45m
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 83 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Sardinian man claims to own the moon and tries to sell it. A series of oddball characters get involved in his scheme.

whimsicaloffbeatlight-heartedplayfulquirkyabsurddeadpansatirical

What happens

The Man Who Bought the Moon (Italian: L'uomo che comprò la Luna, Spanish: El hombre que compró la luna) is a 2018 Italian-Argentine-Albanian comedy film co-written and directed by Paolo Zucca and starring Jacopo Cullin, Stefano Fresi and Francesco Pannofino. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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