The Moon and Sixpence

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1942 PG-13 1h 29m
6.1 /10
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The Moon and Sixpence
The Moon and Sixpence
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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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catfactory
24 Sep 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 ...

Geronimo1967
3 Dec 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 li...

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