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... 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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Reviews for Days and Clouds
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draws viewers in close and never relinquishes its grip Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Days and Clouds, despite its darkness, warmly reminds us that if we have each other, sometimes that's all we need. Full Review |
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... or all the emotional integrity and observational exactness, it's more social study than character drama. Full Review |
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Evidently we aren't the only ones feeling nervous about the economy. Full Review |
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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 |
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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 |
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The movie's success in Italy is partly a matter of frustration: Women need their men to grow up. Full Review |
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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 |
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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 |
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An intelligent adult drama that's especially relevant in these harsh economic times. Full Review |
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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 |
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It plays out more like a 12-step program than a human drama. Full Review |
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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 |
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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 |
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Dude, where's my wife and job? Full Review |
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One way to look at this movie is as an elegantly acted, art-house woman's picture. Full Review |
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Nothing is forced and the acting is just as sunny. Full Review |
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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 |
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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 |
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