Synopsis
In 1950s France, a free-spirited woman trapped in an arranged marriage falls in love with an injured veteran of the Indochinese War.
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Cast
- Marion CotillardGabrielle
- Louis GarrelAndré Sauvage
- Àlex BrendemühlJosé
- Brigitte RoüanAdéle
- Victoire Du BoisJeannine
- Aloïse SauvageAgostine
- Inès GrunenwaldLa secrétaire de la cure
- Jihwan KimBlaise
- Daniel ParaMartin
- Ange Black-BereyziatMarc Rabascal à 7 ans
Recommendations
- 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Cotillard’s performance is luminous throughout, enriching the willful heroine with the depth of a single obsession. - 70
Screen Daily
The ingredients of an old-fashioned romantic weepie are given class and conviction by director Nicole Garcia whose elegant restraint helps to ground the more fanciful elements in some sense of reality. Her approach also makes the eleventh hour revelations easier to swallow. - 60
Time Out London
The result, despite an uncertain start, is in the end a surprisingly intriguing and affecting movie. - 50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Still, the thing is almost watchable until a ridiculous reveal spoils whatever chances this film had at succeeding. - 40
The Guardian
The film takes on Gabrielle’s listlessness, slumps into an opiated fug. The malady is mysterious and not easily treatable. It just exhausts you. It transforms from a story about release to just another jail. At times it felt like there was no escape. - 40
Variety
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. - 40
The Telegraph
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. - 25
The Film Stage
It is a weepy Sunday matinee melodrama of the most run-of-the-mill variety, full of pretty people in pretty clothes feeling Big Emotions.
