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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Reviews for Beyond the Clouds
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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 |
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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 |
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One of Fanny Ardant's lines sums up the rest of Beyond the Clouds: 'Everything seems ridiculous.' Full Review |
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Delightful recent film showing Antonioni's visual style. Full Review |
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It makes for entrancing cinema. Full Review |
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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 |
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A bit dreamy, but in the way that leads to a doze.
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Everybody likes a pretty face, but when it comes right down to the nitty-gritty, Beyond the Clouds lacks substance. Full Review |
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Musing on the power of inner thought and imagination, the film is far from deep, but instead feels superficial and one-dimensional. Full Review |
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See this film. It may be Antonioni's last. Full Review |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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A wasted opportunity. Full Review |
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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 |
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It's [the] compelling sense of mystery, of the endless search and its undercurrent of loneliness, that sets this great filmmaker apart. Full Review |
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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 |
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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 |
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