draws viewers in close and never relinquishes its grip
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Days and Clouds (2008)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:24
Rotten:5
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: An elegantly acted art house film about a middle class couple's struggle to hold their lives together, Days and Cloud is both sensitive and engrossing.
Theatrical Release:Jul 11, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Well-to-do, sophisticated couple, Elsa and Michele, have a 20 year-old daughter, Alice, and enough money for Elsa to leave her job and fulfill an old dream of studying art history. After she... [More]
Starring: Margherita Buy, Giuseppe Battiston, Alba Rohrwacher, Paolo Sassanelli
Director: Silvio Soldini
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This kind of story is happening much more frequently with the economic recession that is affecting much of the world now.
01/13/09
Days and Clouds, despite its darkness, warmly reminds us that if we have each other, sometimes that's all we need.
11/21/08
... or all the emotional integrity and observational exactness, it's more social study than character drama.
11/20/08
Evidently we aren't the only ones feeling nervous about the economy.
11/07/08
Days and Clouds serves as a primer in coping with depression, financial and/or personal. But it is stirring, serious and, ultimately, mercifully optimistic cinema.
10/17/08
Top CriticElsa and Michele's story is such a deft study of what can make a relationship go to pieces that it's a satisfying watch in spite of all the bitterness.
10/16/08
The movie's success in Italy is partly a matter of frustration: Women need their men to grow up.
10/10/08
Top Critica thought-provoking and powerful story that will appeal to mature audiences and those who appreciate fine filmmaking...that is worth laying out 12 bucks to see it at the theater.
10/03/08
Soldini gets at all the nuances of a marriage of many years in crisis, and, without a typical 'happy' ending where all worries are neatly resolved, wraps with hopeful poetry...
09/28/08
An intelligent adult drama that's especially relevant in these harsh economic times.
09/26/08
Top CriticLittle is surprising about either characters’ behavior, but there isn’t a single anguished expression that plays forced or false.
09/26/08
It plays out more like a 12-step program than a human drama.
09/26/08
What seemed at first a provocative study of a family tragedy becomes a two-hour immersion into minutiea until you start thinking that the exits are where the action is.
09/13/08
This is a portrait of nerve-racking economic times, and it cuts close to the bone in detailing how a marriage suffers when its financial underpinnings are suddenly knocked away.
08/29/08
Top CriticDude, where's my wife and job?
07/13/08
One way to look at this movie is as an elegantly acted, art-house woman's picture.
07/11/08
Nothing is forced and the acting is just as sunny.
07/11/08
A brave film simply for daring to portray a nightmare lurking in the minds of middle-aged workers, people who might fear a film that addresses their insecurities this bluntly.
07/11/08
Top CriticMoney makes the world go round in Days and Clouds, a darling relationship drama that probes our collective fears about financial instability with an almost profoundly empathetic detachment.
07/11/08
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