Little is surprising about either characters’ behavior, but there isn’t a single anguished expression that plays forced or false.
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09/26/08
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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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Reviews for Days and Clouds
Soldini's finely observed, marvelously sensitive writing and direction draw you in like a subtle whirlpool.
07/09/08
Michele, in his inviolable pride and short temper, is almost a caricature of the vain Italian man, but the film otherwise deals with emotion in a truthful way.
07/09/08
Deliberately paced and naturally limned by all, the family's ups and downs make for a satisfying journey.
10/01/07
A flawlessly directed drama about an Italian couple's life together in love that is besieged by unemployment and the drastic downsizing of their lives.
07/10/08
An intelligent adult drama that's especially relevant in these harsh economic times.
09/26/08
draws viewers in close and never relinquishes its grip
01/26/09
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 CriticDecent performances from the two leads.
09/05/07
Dude, 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
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
Nothing is forced and the acting is just as sunny.
07/11/08
Days and Clouds, despite its darkness, warmly reminds us that if we have each other, sometimes that's all we need.
11/21/08
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.
07/11/08
This kind of story is happening much more frequently with the economic recession that is affecting much of the world now.
01/13/09
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.
10/03/08
While the context, in the U.S. as well as its native country, lends Days And Clouds added resonance, Soldini's main interest is in the politics of marriage.
07/10/08
Evidently we aren't the only ones feeling nervous about the economy.
11/07/08
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
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