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From the Land of the Moon

Mal de pierres (AKA From The Land Of The Moon)

2016

Nicole García

Marion Cotillard, Louis Garrel, Àlex Brendemühl, Brigitte Roüan ...

6.0

1,451

Romance. Drama An adaptation of Milena Agus' eponymous novel set after WWII, "Mal de Pierres" spans 20 years, following the destiny of a passionate, free-spirited woman who is in a loveless marriage and falls for another man.

	Author	Review
United States	Nikola Grozdanovic The Playlist	"Insufferably dull (...) Your time would be better spent staring at a postcard for two hours."	NEG
United States	Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"A film with such a regressive view of female desire that it’s hard to believe it was made by a woman (...) [It] is embarrassing enough to stay lodged in one’s memory forever"	NEG
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"Well-heeled French cinema with a standout Cotillard"	POS
United States	Jessica Kiang Variety	"As syrupy a confection as ever dripped from the pen of Nicholas Sparks (...) [A] borderline pastiche of the French romantic melodrama"	NEG
United States	Steve Pond The Wrap	"'From the Land of the Moon' is a well-crafted film, pretty and subdued even as it’s dealing with raw, unpretty emotions (...) This is Cotillard’s film, and she’s tremendously affecting"	POS
United Kingdom	Allan Hunter Screendaily	"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"	POS
United Kingdom	Henry Barnes The Guardian	"[A] fuggy sexual melodrama (...) For a fairly simple plot the story rolls out awfully slow (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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