

The Moon and Sixpence
Strange DREAMS - He had ideas he never told her about...He didn't dare!
Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. He is from now on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.
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6.3/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $401K
- Box office
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- Language
- English
- painting
- tahiti
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- Theatrical27 Oct 1942
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The Moon and Sixpence was released on 27 October 1942.
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2- C6/10
CinemaSerf
12/3/2023
George Sanders is good, in what's quite an untypical type of role for him, in this otherwise rather plodding and wordy drama that has shades of the life of Paul Gauguin to it. He's a stockbroker ("Strickland") who tires of his life and his wife so decides to take up a career painting and living in Paris. The only constant in his life is his long suffering friend "Wolfe" (narrator Herbert Marshall) but even he loses i…
- C6/10
catfactory
9/23/2025
I am so torn with this movie. The drive to create, the artistic urge can be so overwhelming that some people eschew everything, all relationships and comforts, to pursue it. Humans are driven to make things, to create. Art and the way it tells a story is part of being human. Even if no one sees what is created, the creative act still has meaning. All of this is the central theme of this movie. And so much of how it i…
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