From the Land of the Moon
IFC Films | Release Date: July 28, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
8
Negative:
6
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungMay 20, 2016
Cotillard’s performance is luminous throughout, enriching the willful heroine with the depth of a single obsession. Read full review
70
Screen DailyAllan HunterMay 20, 2016
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. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyJul 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
60
Village VoiceAbbey BenderJul 27, 2017
The film could be shorter and perhaps more logical, and as the soap opera drama builds, the timeline becomes muddled. Still, there’s something pleasantly old-fashioned about its commitment to grandiose emotion. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonGeoff AndrewJun 5, 2017
The result, despite an uncertain start, is in the end a surprisingly intriguing and affecting movie. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenAug 3, 2017
Garcia never gets a grasp on her protagonist’s contradictions, or those of her story — certainly not enough to pull off the movie’s jaw-dropper of a twist. But she conjures a powerful sensuality, and Cotillard burns ferociously bright, even when the center does not hold. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerJul 6, 2017
Still, the thing is almost watchable until a ridiculous reveal spoils whatever chances this film had at succeeding. Read full review
48
Paste MagazineJake Kring-SchreifelsAug 7, 2017
Cotillard, whose face is often painted in chiaroscuro care of cinematographer Christophe Beaucarne, manages to provide a gravitas and slightly colored deviations from what is otherwise a monochrome character. Read full review
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The TelegraphRobbie CollinJun 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
40
The GuardianHenry BarnesMay 20, 2016
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. Read full review
40
VarietyJessica KiangMay 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
33
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloJul 26, 2017
Cotillard tries hard to fashion a credible human being from this collection of shallow adolescent impulses, but the movie infantilizes Gabrielle at every turn. Read full review
30
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergJul 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
25
Washington PostAlan ZilbermanAug 3, 2017
From the Land of the Moon features a typical Cotillard performance, yet the romance, from French actress and filmmaker Nicole Garcia, manages to convey neither triumph nor tragedy. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineChuck BowenJul 25, 2017
The film is so humorless and in love with its own obviousness that it grows laughable. Read full review
25
The Film StageRory O'ConnorMay 20, 2016
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. Read full review
16
The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicMay 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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