From the Land of the Moon

From the Land of the Moon

2016120 min6.6 / 10

A melancholic post-war romance about a constrained woman finding forbidden love with a wounded veteran, set against the social constraints of 1950s France.

In 1950s France, a free-spirited woman trapped in an arranged marriage falls in love with an injured veteran of the Indochinese War.

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