Head in the Clouds

2004 "Three lives. One destiny."
6.5| 2h1m| R| en| More Info
Released: 17 September 2004 Released
Producted By: Spice Factory
Country: United Kingdom
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.sonyclassics.com/headintheclouds/
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Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic lifestyle and her burgeoning career as a photographer. But Guy and Mia feel impelled to join the fight against fascism, and the three friends are separated.

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Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?
Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic
Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
merylmatt When I say pretty I don't mean just the actors Charlize (Gilda)Penelope Cruz and Stuart Townsend(Guy). Very nice epic/period piece that starts off post World War 1 and ends in 1945. The costumes, cars, homes, backdrops are gorgeous.I thought the movie was too long. After about 45 minutes, you get the idea that the main character is a spoiled rich hedonist who wants to escape reality. She was a feminist before there were such things.**Spoilerer** You also catch on quickly that everyone loves Gilda, but she is incapable of returning love or loyalty. Or is she? Can there be last minute redemption? In the movies, sure. My biggest problem with this flick is that it has been done before - see the Winds of War for example amongst others. If you've never seen a period piece of the 1930's, this may wow you.
hakof A young, impoverished, passionate left-wing Irish student at Cambridge University, Guy Malyon (Stuart Townsend) falls in love with a happy-go-lucky, American-born socialite Gilda Bessé (Charlize Theron). Maylon follows her to 1930s Paris, where she is a professional photographer and where she lives with a Spanish-born nurse named Mia (Penélope Cruz). Maylon and Bessé cohabitate and work together. Inflamed by the injustice of the fascist Falange in the Spanish War, Mia and Maylon leave Paris to fight in the Spanish Civil War. Maylon eventually returns to Paris; he later fights in World War II; and he constantly longs for Bessé.Somewhere, someone commented that this film could have had the tagline, "How world events can mess with your love life." That pretty much sums it up. Maylon wants to be with Bessé, but the great struggle against fascism keeps derailing their relationship. Frankly, the script is ridiculous. In fact, the whole storyline is completely overdone and melodramatic. It seems very contrived. It is as if the screenwriter wanted to tell an epic, dramatic love story against the political events of Europe 1934-1944, but this film doesn't have the heft. It's no "Dr. Zhivago." Additionally, the acting is fairly awful and over-dramatic. I can't believe that two Oscar-worthy actresses needed to act in a movie as absurd as this one. There is nothing subtle about the script that would befit their great acting talents. After seeing this film on cable television, I was so disappointed that I was moved to write the foregoing comment. I would recommend avoiding this film.
Dane (dane11) I'll keep this simple -- this movie could have been great, but it wanted to be too much. It wanted to be epic, it wanted to be about friends and it wanted to be an anti-war movie and on top of that, it wanted to be about WWII and the underground work. I wanted to like this movie and while it's not impossible to watch, it is slow and plodding some times. This is a movie that really could have hit the audience hard, but it just kind of laid there instead.We go through a long, long development of the relationship between the two main characters Charlize Theron and Stuart Townsend. This could have been story enough, but no, we have to follow them over a 10 or 15 year period and go all the way through WWII. Early on, we are introduced to Penelope Cruz who is a good friend to Theron's character. And from this we kind of slip into a pseudo-three-way that never fully develops. Then there is the Spanish Civil War that Cruz's character feels she must partake in as well as Townsend. Again, this could have been an interesting story all on its own. Finally, we get into WWII and it drags on and on and I started to lose interest in the characters and the story. It's all just too much of a BIG story and, at the same time, not enough of a story to really hold our interest. The actors were okay, though sometimes I felt like Theron was just reading her lines. Townsend, for the most part fits the role, but other times he comes across as too modern for the time period. There are a few twists and turns here that keep the viewer interested, but overall, its not as good as it could have been. A shorter version, about one of the many story lines could make this a really, really good film.
veljko1 I always liked movies movie about mafia, war, si-fi. But this movie is something else, first i thought that it is boring romantic movie, which are very populary in these days. But believe me this movie is not boring always is something happening. It almost make my cry. But i am a grown man!!! This is the most unhappy story of one couple which meet each other at collage, and ended a lot years latter, when they are not young, full of life like on start. It ends really tragically, and they can't start all over. :( What a sad story, today they live in dream spending all time together, living in nice part of Paris, having fun. But tomorrow they are in war, sacrificing for each other and thinking about past days, and about love which she never told him what does she feel.. This movie must be in top 250!!! Everything is perfect! If don't now should you watch it, i say you must watch it, but you will feel very sad for about 5 days!