From the Land of the Moon | |
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Mal de pierres | |
Directed by | Nicole Garcia |
Produced by | Alain Attal |
Screenplay by | Nicole Garcia Jacques Fieschi |
Based on |
From the Land of the Moon by Milena Agus |
Starring |
Marion Cotillard Louis Garrel Alex Brendemühl |
Music by | Daniel Pemberton |
Cinematography | Christophe Beaucarne |
Edited by | Simon Jacquet |
Production
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Les Productions du Trésor
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Distributed by | StudioCanal |
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Running time
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120 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Budget | € 10.3 million |
Box office | US$2.9 million |
From the Land of the Moon (French: Mal de pierres) is a 2016 French film written and directed by Nicole Garcia and starring Marion Cotillard. The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by Milena Agus. The film competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and received 8 nominations for the César Awards, including Best Film, Best Director for Nicole Garcia, and Best Actress for Marion Cotillard.
At the end of WWII a woman engages in a marriage of convenience to a man who had been kind to her family during the war. Constantly sickly, she goes to a spa to recover and falls in love with a veteran she meets there.
In May 2015, StudioCanal acquired distribution rights to the film in United Kingdom, France, Germany and Australia. In March 2016, Sundance Selects acquired U.S distribution rights to the film.