M is for the Many Things You Gave Me: Grief Becomes the Remedy in Carmoon’s Debut
“Time heals all old pain, while it creates new ones,” states a Hebrew proverb, implying the distance from grief may court closure while carving out its own rippling chasm of hurt in the inevitable process. The constricting power of grief is at the center of Hoard, the peculiar debut from director Luna Carmoon. In essence a tale about a dysfunctional mother-daughter bond defined by a parent’s hoarding disorder, Carmoon’s psychological portrait of how the past can suddenly overwhelm the present is familiar but often unpredictable with its trajectory toward unavoidable reckoning for its lead protagonist.… Read the rest
