From the Land of the Moon: reviews

What the critics say average 5.5 from 6 outlets

• 7.0 The Hollywood ReporterDorah Young Cotillard's performance is luminous throughout, enriching the willful heroine with the depth of a single obsession. Read
• 7.0 Screen DailyAllan Hunter 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. Read
• 7.0 The WrapSteve Pond This is Cotillard?s film, and she's tremendously affecting in what was no doubt a tricky role to pull off. Read
• 4.0 VarietyJessica Kiang [It] is as syrupy a confection as ever dripped from the pen of Nicholas Sparks [...] Instead we get this borderline pastiche of the French romantic melodrama. Read
• 4.0 The GuardianHenry Barnes 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
• 4.0 El PaísCarlos Boyero It has an aroma of old movies in the worst sense, it is visually academic. (...) The best is the interpretation of that excellent actress named Marion Cotillard. But it's not enough. Read
• El MundoLuis Martinez The little justification of her character, [...] next to the almost ridiculous structure of the final in the form of a paranoid thriller, ends up ruining a project that demanded a much more altered, passionate and frantic pulse. Read