There are moments of such astounding visual power in Michelangelo Antonioni's film Beyond the Clouds that you are all but transported through the screen to a place where the physical and emotional weather fuse into a palpable sadness.
Beyond the Clouds
1995 · 1h 50m · NOT RATED
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Wim Wenders
,
Michelangelo Antonioni
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Beyond the Clouds
Overview
Four tales, each centered on a woman, journey inward to explore the enigmatic reality of their lives, connecting through a single narrative thread.
Director and cast
- Wim Wenders Director
- Michelangelo Antonioni Director
- Fanny Ardant as Patricia
- Chiara Caselli as Mistress
- Irène Jacob as The Girl
- John Malkovich as The Director
- Sophie Marceau as The Girl
- Vincent Perez as Niccolo
- Jean Reno as Carlo
- Kim Rossi Stuart as Silvano
- Inés Sastre as Carmen
- Peter Weller as Husband
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
There are a lot of beautiful things in Beyond the Clouds: the style, the settings, the bodies of young men and women-many of them beautiful in the vaguely blank way that models are.
It's [the] compelling sense of mystery, of the endless search and its undercurrent of loneliness, that sets this great filmmaker apart.
Antonioni's dreamy, pretentious fickle-finger-of-fate mini-tales struggle to wrestle with love and desire, but truck in adolescent ideas and delight in nothing so much as undressing their many young actresses.
It makes for entrancing cinema.
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