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From the Land of the Moon

Original title: Mal de pierres
  • 2016
  • R
  • 2h
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
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Marion Cotillard in From the Land of the Moon (2016)
In 1950s France, Gabrielle is a passionate, free-spirited woman who is in a loveless marriage and falls for another man when she is sent away to the Alps to treat her kidney stones. Gabrielle yearns to free herself and run away with André.
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In 1950s France, Gabrielle is a passionate, free-spirited woman who is in a loveless marriage and falls for another man when she is sent away to the Alps to treat her kidney stones. Gabriell... Read allIn 1950s France, Gabrielle is a passionate, free-spirited woman who is in a loveless marriage and falls for another man when she is sent away to the Alps to treat her kidney stones. Gabrielle yearns to free herself and run away with André.In 1950s France, Gabrielle is a passionate, free-spirited woman who is in a loveless marriage and falls for another man when she is sent away to the Alps to treat her kidney stones. Gabrielle yearns to free herself and run away with André.

  • Director
    • Nicole Garcia
  • Writers
    • Milena Agus
    • Natalie Carter
    • Jacques Fieschi
  • Stars
    • Marion Cotillard
    • Louis Garrel
    • Alex Brendemühl
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.6/10
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    • Director
      • Nicole Garcia
    • Writers
      • Milena Agus
      • Natalie Carter
      • Jacques Fieschi
    • Stars
      • Marion Cotillard
      • Louis Garrel
      • Alex Brendemühl
    • 27User reviews
    • 107Critic reviews
    • 40Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 16 nominations total

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    Marion Cotillard
    Marion Cotillard
    • Gabrielle
    Louis Garrel
    Louis Garrel
    • André Sauvage
    Alex Brendemühl
    Alex Brendemühl
    • José
    Brigitte Roüan
    • Adèle
    Victoire Du Bois
    Victoire Du Bois
    • Jeannine
    Aloïse Sauvage
    Aloïse Sauvage
    • Agostine
    Daniel Para
    • Martin
    Jihwan Kim
    • Blaise
    Victor Quilichini
    • Marc 14 ans
    Ange Black-Bereyziat
    • Marc 7 ans
    Sören Rochefort
    • Georget
    Camilo Acosta Mendoza
    • Camilo
    Francisco Alfonsin
    Francisco Alfonsin
    • Paco
    Julio Bollullo Carasco
    • Julio
    Folco Jullien
    • Garçon fête
    Maurice Chaspoul
    • Le maire
    Alexandre Dufour
    • Le facteur
    Pierre Alloggia
    Pierre Alloggia
    • Chauffeur de taxi
    • Director
      • Nicole Garcia
    • Writers
      • Milena Agus
      • Natalie Carter
      • Jacques Fieschi
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    7CinemaSerf

    From the Land of the Moon

    From an early age, "Gabrielle" (Marion Cotillard) has shown a bit of a rebellious spirit. As a girl, she was determined not to obey her parental wish to marry the local "Jose" (a subtly nuanced effort from Alex Brendemühl) - even though he was quite fond of her, and as a result she lived in the semi-seclusion that befitted an unwed girl in rural France. Her "break" comes in the unlikely form of some kidney stones that necessitates a trip to an Alpine hospital. It's here that she encounters the recovering "André" (Louis Garrel) who has just returned from French Indochina shell-shocked and badly wounded. There's a little of a Wildred Owen poem to this drama, I thought. It shows us the results of the horrors of war, the after effects and trauma, but there's also a degree of hope and optimism as their love story takes shape and maybe, just maybe, there's scope for contentment somewhere. Cotillard is on solid form as the rather self-obsessed and just a bit flaky "Gabrielle" and though Garrel doesn't have so much to do, he still comes across convincingly as a soldier conflicted by a reality and a dream - it's that conclusion that is quite a touching affair, and causes us to have a think about just who "Gabrielle" actually is. The film looks good and is well scored by Daniel Pemberton which all gives a certain lustre to Cotillard's portrayal of a woman I don't think I'd have liked very much.
    TxMike

    Marion Cotillard in a superb performance as a difficult lady.

    I watched this at home on DVD from my local library. My wife skipped, she doesn't enjoy reading subtitles. It is mostly in French and I watched it with English subtitles.

    I got the movie mainly because it features Marion Cotillard. She is a lovely lady and one of the best actresses of the current generation.

    Here she is Gabrielle, part of a farming family in France that includes her dad and mom, plus a younger sister. We see that she was difficult growing up, what some may call "mean." And also fixated on nudity and sex. Looking like she might never marry, her parents made a deal with one of the workers, a Mr. Rabascal, if he would marry her then they would help set him up with his own masonry business. He agrees, Gabrielle eventually goes along, but she tells him directly that she will never love him and they will not have husband-wife relations. In her magnanimity she tells him she doesn't mind if he goes into the city to hire a prostitute.

    I will not say much more except to say it is mainly a character study of Gabrielle, how she deals with her difficult personality, in the end trying to achieve some happiness with her husband and son who has a gift for playing the piano.

    Marion Cotillard is superb.
    9Lalpera

    It is a beautiful movie!

    Its hard to start where. I mean the movie is like an eternally flowing river. So you simply don't know where it started or ends. Just like Gabrielle's life, feelings, emotions, love....oh the list is long. Marion is fantastic! She is the live wire of the movie. She takes you wherever she wants to go, along with her journey. Her intensity, stature, fervor has always been her identity or trademark in any movie she acts in. Jose is equally good with his supposedly subdued character. But his silence, that mostly lives in, reflected through his razor sharp eyes hangs on your head like a dagger. I am not too sure of Lt. Andre's character. As to me, was the weakest cast in the movie. True, with his illness there was nothing much he could do in the role, but his imposed vampire like look didn't help much either, to build whatever left to be build.

    Daniel Pemberton's Music was awesome and soothing. Use of violin in an alluring pitch in many intense scenes was spellbinding. Chris captures gorgeous landscapes and close-ups. Nicole has done a fantastic job bunching up all these talents together. Simply Fantastic! I will live a long time mesmerizing on this beautifully crafted movie. Excellent!

    This movie deserves a generous 9/10!
    6ferguson-6

    A dreamer's dream

    Greetings again from the darkness. Director Nicole Garcia (The Adversary, 2002) takes the best-selling novel from Milena Agus and hearkens back to good old-fashioned movie melodrama – with a French twist. Of course, most any project is elevated with the beautiful and talented Marion Cotillard in the lead role. Few can suffer on screen as expertly as Ms. Cotillard, and she conveys that disquiet through most of this story.

    What is love? You'd best not look to Gabrielle (Cotillard) for clarification. As a young woman, her search for love and sexual fulfillment follows the fantasies of the novels she reads (Wuthering Heights). Her corresponding inappropriate behavior teeters between delusion and hysteria. It's the 1950's in rural France, so her actions and attitude are not much appreciated, and her parents bribe Jose (Alex Brendemuhl), a local bricklayer, to marry Gabrielle. She is then given the choice of (an "arranged") marriage or a mental institution.

    As a romantic dreamer whose blurred reality expects love to mirror those romance novels, Gabrielle's self-centeredness and failure to grasp reality results in a loveless marriage – and easily one of the most uncomfortable lovemaking scenes in the history of French cinema. Beyond that, severe kidney stones make it impossible for her to bear children. In hopes of "the cure", she is sent for treatment to a spa in the Alps (it's the same spa from Paolo Sorrentino's 2015 film YOUTH).

    While at the spa, she meets handsome Andre (Louis Garrel), a gravely ill soldier from the Indochina War. Gabrielle imagines Andre to be everything she dreamt a lover should be (except for that whole sickness thing). The contrast between the two love-making sessions is startling, and it seems as though Gabrielle has found her bliss.

    The years pass after her release from the spa, and Gabrielle makes one mistake after another … blind to what and who is right in front of her … while holding on to the dreamer's dream. She is certainly not a likable person, and is downright cruel to her loyal (and extremely quiet) husband Jose. However, Ms. Cotillard is such an accomplished actress that we somehow pull for Gabrielle to "snap out of it".

    The novel was adapted by Jacques Fieschi, Natalie Carter and director Garcia, and you'll likely either be a fan or not, depending on your taste for old-fashioned melodrama. Despite numerous awkward moments, it's beautifully photographed by cinematographer Christophe Beaucame. Additionally, the music plays a vital role here – both composer Daniel Pemberton's use of the violin, and the duality of Tchaikovsky's piano concerto that connects Gabrielle's two worlds. You may say she's a dreamer, but I hope she's the only one.
    searchanddestroy-1

    Moving but not more.

    I will be honest, I did see this film because it is directed by Nicole Garcia, one outstanding female French director, the best I guess. She has a very sensitive way of filming. So, I did go to see this film without hesitating. And of course I don't regret it at all. Marion Cotillard, whom I don't particularly appreciate, is at her best here. Although I don't crave for her, she is a damn good actress, but sorry, I felt a little emptiness here, I don't really know where. Something missed somewhere. The actors and actresses around her are flawless, but I persist on my opinion. I don't think that's a matter of directing. Not with Nicole Garcia. Maybe because this kind of scheme has already been told a hundred times before.

    But it remains a good film.

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    • Trivia
      The title "Mal di Pietre" (in Italian) / "Mal de Pierres" (in French) means "Evil Stones/Stone Pain/Stone Ache". In the context of the novel, it refers to the protagonist's kidney stones. While the English title, "From the Land of the Moon", comes from an excerpt of the novel: "Her whole life she had been told that she was like someone from the land of the moon..."
    • Goofs
      It's very unlikely that in 1950s France, Gabrielle would be diagnosed by a female doctor.
    • Connections
      Referenced in Evening Urgant: Dolph Lundgren (2016)
    • Soundtracks
      Siciliana
      Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach

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    • Release date
      • July 28, 2017 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Belgium
      • Canada
      • Spain
    • Official sites
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    • Languages
      • French
      • Spanish
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Un momento de amor
    • Filming locations
      • Lyon, France
    • Production companies
      • Trésor Films
      • StudioCanal
      • France 3 Cinéma
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    • Budget
      • €10,300,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $47,748
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $4,473
      • Jul 30, 2017
    • Gross worldwide
      • $6,547,983
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    • Runtime
      2 hours
    • Color
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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