Momo (2025)
Director: Christian Ditter · Writer: Christian Ditter
Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time left for her, let alone their friends or families. Momo, together with Master Hora, the custodian of time, are the only ones who can go up against the time thieves before all is lost forever.
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Director
Christian Ditter
Cast
Alexa Goodall
Momo 
Martin Freeman
Master Hora 
Laura Haddock
Jackie 
Araloyin Oshunremi
Gino 
David Schütter
Brutus 
Claes Bang
Judge 
Jennifer Amaka Pettersson
Liliana 
Kim Bodnia
Beppo 
Skylar Blu Copeland
Maria
Maxwell Smith
Paolo 
Duško Valentić
Uncle Roman 
Kurt Ravn
Uncle Roman User Reviews (2)
"Momo" (Alexa Goodall) is a street urchin type who lives amidst the pretty substantial ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheatre. She's one of the few people left in society nowadays who actually knows how to listen, and so is popular with people who use her as their sort of agony-neice and with pizza boy "Gino" (Araloying Oshunremi). He lives in a family restaurant that is only one step ahead of the bank. Then an engimatic woman (Laura Haddock) arrives on the scene offering them a life-changing opportunity. By wearing a special bracelet they can accumulate all their spare time and then put it to better use later on. Many people snap up this device but she senses it is a dangerous tool. How can she thwart what she reckons are the nefarious activities of the menacing "Richter" (Claes Bang); his cohort of inhaler-addicted henchpeople and some hovering robots (think V.I.N.C.E.N.T. from Disney'…
This is one of those stories that is HARD to make into a movie. I would say this is only slightly better off than the Barsoom-stories by ERB, but only just. This movie might have been better off as a TV series, sort of the same treatment The Golden Compass got, but this is in no way a bad adaptation of the story. Momo as a character is lovely, just like in the book, and the world she inhabits is a living, breathing thing. The bad guys are bad, and the friends are friendly. The story feels somewhat truncated, but the adaptation to this era, removing the cigarettes in lieu of inhalers, and mentioning (obliquely, but still) chatbots makes a lot of sense. I am not sure if Martin's casting here is the best, and maybe an older actor could have given this a bit more gravitas. As a narrator he does a fine job, but I think they could have gotten someone else to do the part he plays. Overal…
