The Moon and Sixpence

The Moon and Sixpence (1942)

October 27th, 19421h 29min

Drama
63%

Overview

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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