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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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B+

John A. Nesbit

draws viewers in close and never relinquishes its grip

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 26 2009 07:29 PM

Old School Reviews

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A

Robert Roten

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 13 2009 03:55 PM

Laramie Movie Scope

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3/4

Moira MacDonald

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Nov., 21 2008 01:28 PM

Seattle Times

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C+

Sean Axmaker

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Nov., 20 2008 06:04 PM

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Stan Hall

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Nov., 07 2008 01:41 PM

Oregonian

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John Anderson

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: | comment Comment | Oct., 17 2008 01:29 PM

Washington Post

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Tricia Olszewski

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: | comment Comment | Oct., 16 2008 07:32 PM

Washington City Paper

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3/4

Wesley Morris

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Oct., 10 2008 02:52 PM

Boston Globe

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A

Robin Clifford

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: | comment Comment | Oct., 03 2008 11:08 AM

Reeling Reviews

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A-

Laura Clifford

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: | comment Comment | Sep., 28 2008 11:37 AM

Reeling Reviews

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3.5/5

Gary Goldstein

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 26 2008 03:02 PM

Los Angeles Times

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3/4

Brent Simon

Little is surprising about either characters’ behavior, but there isn’t a single anguished expression that plays forced or false.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 26 2008 02:59 PM

Los Angeles Daily News

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Ella Taylor

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 26 2008 02:57 PM

L.A. Weekly

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2.5/5

Jules Brenner

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: | comment Comment | Sep., 13 2008 02:24 PM

Cinema Signals

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4/4

Walter V. Addiego

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: | comment Comment | Aug., 29 2008 01:39 PM

San Francisco Chronicle

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4/4

Kam Williams

Dude, where's my wife and job?

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jul., 13 2008 04:11 PM

NewsBlaze

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2.75/5

Kent Turner

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jul., 11 2008 02:23 PM

Film-Forward.com

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4/5

Matthew Nestel

Nothing is forced and the acting is just as sunny.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jul., 11 2008 01:49 PM

Boxoffice Magazine

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4/5

Stephen Holden

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: | comment Comment | Jul., 11 2008 10:52 AM

New York Times

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3/4

Rob Humanick

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: | comment Comment | Jul., 11 2008 07:34 AM

Slant Magazine

 
 
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