From the Land of the Moon

Name: From the Land of the Moon
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: July 28, 2017
Duration: 120 min
Rating: 40
Cast: Àlex Brendemühl, Aloïse Sauvage, Ange Black-Bereyziat, Brigitte Roüan, Daniel Para

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IFC Films | Release Date: July 28, 2017 | R

Starring: Àlex Brendemühl, Aloïse Sauvage, Ange Black-Bereyziat, Brigitte Roüan, Daniel Para, Jihwan Kim, Louis Garrel, Marion Cotillard, Victoire Du Bois, Victor Quilichini

Summary: Gabrielle (Marion Cotillard) comes from a small village in the South of France, at a time when her dream of true love is considered scandalous, and even a sign of insanity. Her parents marry her to José (Alex Brendemühl), an honest and loving Spanish farm worker who they think will make a respectable woman of her. Despite José’s devotion toGabrielle (Marion Cotillard) comes from a small village in the South of France, at a time when her dream of true love is considered scandalous, and even a sign of insanity. Her parents marry her to José (Alex Brendemühl), an honest and loving Spanish farm worker who they think will make a respectable woman of her. Despite José’s devotion to her, Gabrielle vows that she will never love José and lives like a prisoner bound by the constraints of conventional post-World War II society until the day she is sent away to a cure in the Alps to heal her kidney stones. There she meets André Sauvage (Louis Garrel), a dashing injured veteran of the Indochinese War, who rekindles the passion buried inside her. She promises they will run away together, and André seems to share her desire. Will anyone dare rob her of her right to follow her dreams? [IFC Films]… Expand

Director: Nicole Garcia

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 120 min

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Deborah Young

May 20, 2016

Cotillard’s performance is luminous throughout, enriching the willful heroine with the depth of a single obsession. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Jul 28, 2017

A melodrama with an interesting trick in its tail, but I don’t think that director Garcia pulls the trick off as well as she might have. The movie is sumptuously shot by Christophe Beaucarne; every frame is robustly picturesque. But the story could have used a little less “Under the Tuscan Sun” and a little more “All That Heaven Allows.” Read full review

Time Out London Geoff Andrew

Jun 5, 2017

The result, despite an uncertain start, is in the end a surprisingly intriguing and affecting movie. Read full review

Jessica Kiang

May 20, 2016

Of course, Cotillard is your first call if you want an actress to suffer exquisitely, but the issue is her character Gabrielle is essentially a nightmare of self-involvement, whose emotional torture is very difficult to get invested in since she herself has already bought all the shares. Read full review

The Telegraph Robbie Collin

Jun 8, 2017

From the Land of the Moon is a story about how good it feels to feel very, very bad – and how a life lived in rapturous misery is somehow more valuable than mild domestic contentment. That might ring truer if Garcia wasn’t working in such a starchy register. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Jul 27, 2017

Ms. Cotillard can be magnetic even when playing an unplayable character, but when Gabrielle falls for a veteran (Louis Garrel, who has perfected the facial expression of someone looking for another conversation), the chasm between her abilities and her co-star’s is mountainous. Read full review

The Playlist Nikola Grozdanovic

May 20, 2016

Your time would be better spent staring at a postcard for two hours. No, not even the presence of the usually magnetic Marion Cotillard will stave off the boredom of Garcia and Jacques Fieschi‘s screenplay. Read full review

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andreamonetlump

Nov 24, 2017

this starts like a bad relationship. it continues awkwardly. i like how much better it bcomes. i can self identify with the minor actress in the fourth scene.

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GreatMartin

Aug 11, 2017

Sadly what can you do when an Oscar winning, deservedly, actress works with a screenplay, actors, a director and even a music score that works against her?

“From the Land of the Moon” as a title makes even less sense than the movie, which took 2 screenwriters to adapt from a novel. MarionSadly what can you do when an Oscar winning, deservedly, actress works with a screenplay, actors, a director and even a music score that works against her?

“From the Land of the Moon” as a title makes even less sense than the movie, which took 2 screenwriters to adapt from a novel.

Marion Cotillard can either be crazy or a nymphomaniac or a crazy nymphomaniac or neither but it really doesn’t make a difference. She marries a man she tells she won’t have sex with and either has an affair with a gravely ill or doesn’t with the bottom line meaning nothing when the ‘great’ reveal comes at the end.

Marion Cotillard is always a joy to watch and if the 2-hour film had just eliminated everything, every character and just showed her it would have been worth seeing but no way can I recommend this film!… Expand

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