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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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Deborah Young

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 26 2009 03:17 AM

Variety

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Emanuel Levy

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: | comment Comment | Jul., 31 2007 12:57 PM

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Peter Henne

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: | comment Comment | Mar., 01 2007 03:54 AM

Film Journal International

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2/4

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 29 2006 09:15 PM

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Michael E. Grost

Delightful recent film showing Antonioni's visual style.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 22 2006 03:36 PM

Classic Film and Television

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It makes for entrancing cinema.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Feb., 09 2006 03:17 AM

Time Out

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3/5

Christopher Null

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: | comment Comment | Mar., 13 2005 10:15 PM

Filmcritic.com

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2/5

Greg Muskewitz

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

comment Comment | Jul., 10 2003 10:01 PM

eFilmCritic.com

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Christabel Padmore

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Nov., 19 2002 08:29 AM

Apollo Guide

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1.5/5

Bridget Byrne

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: | comment Comment | Nov., 19 2002 08:29 AM

Boxoffice Magazine

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Jean Lowerison

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Nov., 19 2002 08:29 AM

San Diego Metropolitan

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3/4

Jonathan Rosenbaum

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: | comment Comment | Nov., 19 2002 08:29 AM

Chicago Reader

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3.5/5

Marjorie Baumgarten

Beyond the Clouds is a magnificent coda to a career spent excavating images and probing the silences that exist between people.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Nov., 19 2002 08:29 AM

Austin Chronicle

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4.5/5

Stephen Holden

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: | comment Comment | Nov., 19 2002 08:29 AM

New York Times

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Brent Simon

While famous for crafting films about incommunicability and alienation, Antonioni here delivers one that simply communicates nothing at all.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 30 2002 10:15 AM

Entertainment Today

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2/5

A wasted opportunity.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 01 2000 12:00 AM

Empire Magazine

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Dennis Schwartz

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: | comment Comment | Jan., 01 2000 12:00 AM

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Edward Guthmann

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: | comment Comment | Jan., 01 2000 12:00 AM

San Francisco Chronicle

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

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: | comment Comment | Jan., 01 2000 12:00 AM

Combustible Celluloid

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Michael Atkinson

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: | comment Comment | Jan., 01 2000 12:00 AM

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