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Beyond the Clouds (1995)

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Reviews Counted:20

Fresh:13

Rotten:7

Average Rating:6.4/10

Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: Antonioni's first film since suffering a stroke in 1985 is based on stories from his book THAT BOWLING ALLEY IN THE TIBER and was realized with help from Wim Wenders. It is a loosely connected... Antonioni's first film since suffering a stroke in 1985 is based on stories from his book THAT BOWLING ALLEY IN THE TIBER and was realized with help from Wim Wenders. It is a loosely connected series of beautifully shot romantic vignettes tied together by "the Director," (John Malkovich) who wanders around Italy observing the inhabitants of various cities: a beautiful young couple have two magical evenings three years apart; The Director learns the secret of a beautiful young woman (Sophie Marceau); a married man (Peter Weller) must choose between his young mistress or his loyal wife; and, finally, a young man (Vincent Perez) tries to win over an aloof young woman (Irene Jacob). [More]

Starring: John Malkovich, Irène Jacob, Fanny Ardant, Sophie Marceau

Starring: John Malkovich, Irène Jacob, Fanny Ardant, Sophie Marceau, Vincent Perez, Jean Reno, Inés Sastre, Kim Rossi-Stuart, Chiara Caselli, Peter Weller, Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni, Wim Wenders

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni, Wim Wenders
Screenwriter: Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Wim Wenders
Producer: Stephane Tchal Gadjieff, Philippe Carcassonne

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Aug 22, 2000

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Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
03/26/09
Deborah Young
Deborah Young
Variety
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Though not vintage Antonioni, this later work (supervised by Wim Wenders), a meditation on eros, love, and desire, features some of the most beautiful actresses working today: Fanny Ardant, Irene Jacob, and Sophie Marceau.

Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | comment Comment
07/31/07
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Antonioni seems to be using his absence from the scene as an opportunity to restate his vision, perhaps having a new generation of filmgoers in mind.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
03/01/07
Peter Henne
Peter Henne
Film Journal International

One of Fanny Ardant's lines sums up the rest of Beyond the Clouds: 'Everything seems ridiculous.'

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
08/29/06
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Delightful recent film showing Antonioni's visual style.

Full Review Source: Classic Film and Television | comment Comment
08/22/06
Michael E. Grost
Michael E. Grost
Classic Film and Television

It makes for entrancing cinema.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
02/09/06
Time Out

We find we're lucky enough if we can just get one story out of this two-hour ordeal, which wanders aimlessly in art-house hell as often as it enchants.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
03/13/05
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

A bit dreamy, but in the way that leads to a doze.

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07/10/03
Greg Muskewitz
Greg Muskewitz
eFilmCritic.com

Everybody likes a pretty face, but when it comes right down to the nitty-gritty, Beyond the Clouds lacks substance.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
11/19/02
Christabel Padmore
Christabel Padmore
Apollo Guide

Musing on the power of inner thought and imagination, the film is far from deep, but instead feels superficial and one-dimensional.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
11/19/02
Bridget Byrne
Bridget Byrne
Boxoffice Magazine

See this film. It may be Antonioni's last.

Full Review Source: San Diego Metropolitan | comment Comment
11/19/02
Jean Lowerison
Jean Lowerison
San Diego Metropolitan

There are a lot of beautiful things in Beyond the Clouds: the style, the settings, the bodies of young men and women—many of them beautiful in the vaguely blank way that models are.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
11/19/02
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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Beyond the Clouds is a magnificent coda to a career spent excavating images and probing the silences that exist between people.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
11/19/02
Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

There are moments of such astounding visual power in Michelangelo Antonioni's film Beyond the Clouds that you are all but transported through the screen to a place where the physical and emotional weather fuse into a palpable sadness.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment 1 Comment
11/19/02
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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While famous for crafting films about incommunicability and alienation, Antonioni here delivers one that simply communicates nothing at all.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Today | comment Comment
08/30/02
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
Entertainment Today

A wasted opportunity.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
01/01/00
Empire Magazine

It is in the enigma of what it is the lover's want or why they are compelled to want certain things that makes this a fascinating film.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
01/01/00
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

It's [the] compelling sense of mystery, of the endless search and its undercurrent of loneliness, that sets this great filmmaker apart.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
01/01/00
Edward Guthmann
Edward Guthmann
San Francisco Chronicle
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The moments that work in this movie (and there are many) remind us that most other films of today still have a long way to go.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Antonioni's dreamy, pretentious fickle-finger-of-fate mini-tales struggle to wrestle with love and desire, but truck in adolescent ideas and delight in nothing so much as undressing their many young actresses.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
01/01/00
Michael Atkinson
Michael Atkinson
Village Voice
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