If you loved From the Land of the Moon, try The Adversary

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Both films are directed by Nicole Garcia, and they both carry the slow burn mood tag, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to From the Land of the Moon, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Adversary is

French countryside. Winter. A ringing phone. Jean-Marc Faure's life: a busy UN doctor, a loving husband, a respected friend. Except Faure's actual work involves faking international trips and forging professional connections. A grim, proceduralized take on pathological lying from the early aughts.

If you loved From the Land of the Moon, try The Adversary

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If you loved From the Land of the Moon, try The Adversary

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What they share

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