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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.

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 59 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

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... 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 graduates, however, their lives change. Michele confesses he hasn't worked in two months and was fired by the company he founded years ago. Elsa overcomes her initial shock by pouring extra energy into facing the crisis while Michele, exhausted by an unsuccessful job hunt, lets himself go, alternating between vivacity and apathy. The growing distance between them eventually leads to a break-up. Only when they apart will they realize that they risk losing their most precious possession: the love that binds them. [More]

Starring: Margherita Buy, Giuseppe Battiston, Alba Rohrwacher, Paolo Sassanelli

Starring: Margherita Buy, Giuseppe Battiston, Alba Rohrwacher, Paolo Sassanelli, Carla Signoris, Fabio Troiano

Director: Silvio Soldini

Director: Silvio Soldini
Screenwriter: Doriana Leondeff
Studio: Film Movement

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draws viewers in close and never relinquishes its grip

Full Review Source: Old School Reviews | comment Comment
01/26/09
John A. Nesbit
John A. Nesbit
Old School Reviews

This kind of story is happening much more frequently with the economic recession that is affecting much of the world now.

Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | comment Comment
01/13/09
Robert Roten
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope

Days and Clouds, despite its darkness, warmly reminds us that if we have each other, sometimes that's all we need.

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
11/21/08
Moira MacDonald
Moira MacDonald
Seattle Times

... or all the emotional integrity and observational exactness, it's more social study than character drama.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
11/20/08
Sean Axmaker
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Evidently we aren't the only ones feeling nervous about the economy.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
11/07/08
Stan Hall
Stan Hall
Oregonian

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.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
10/17/08
John Anderson
John Anderson
Washington Post
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Elsa 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.

Full Review Source: Washington City Paper | comment Comment
10/16/08
Tricia Olszewski
Tricia Olszewski
Washington City Paper

The movie's success in Italy is partly a matter of frustration: Women need their men to grow up.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
10/10/08
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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a 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.

Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | comment Comment
10/03/08
Robin Clifford
Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews

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...

Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | comment Comment
09/28/08
Laura Clifford
Laura Clifford
Reeling Reviews

An intelligent adult drama that's especially relevant in these harsh economic times.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
09/26/08
Gary Goldstein
Gary Goldstein
Los Angeles Times
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Little is surprising about either characters’ behavior, but there isn’t a single anguished expression that plays forced or false.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
09/26/08
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
Los Angeles Daily News

It plays out more like a 12-step program than a human drama.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
09/26/08
Ella Taylor
Ella Taylor
L.A. Weekly

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.

Full Review Source: Cinema Signals | comment Comment
09/13/08
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

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.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
08/29/08
Walter V. Addiego
Walter V. Addiego
San Francisco Chronicle
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Dude, where's my wife and job?

Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | comment Comment
07/13/08
Kam Williams
Kam Williams
NewsBlaze

One way to look at this movie is as an elegantly acted, art-house woman's picture.

Full Review Source: Film-Forward.com | comment Comment
07/11/08
Kent Turner
Kent Turner
Film-Forward.com

Nothing is forced and the acting is just as sunny.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
07/11/08
Matthew Nestel
Matthew Nestel
Boxoffice Magazine

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.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
07/11/08
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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Money 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.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
07/11/08
Rob Humanick
Rob Humanick
Slant Magazine
 
 
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