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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305943570
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305943575
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: August 22, 2000
Running Time: 112 minutes
Sales Rank: 68401
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1995
Editorial Review:
Description:
Eighty-six year old Italian master Michelangelo Antonioni is considered one of the greatest living directors, his prolific career spanning a fifty year period. He recently received an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement and the American Film Institute's highest honor. Image Entertainment is proud to present the DVD of Antonioni's latest work, the European success 'Beyond the Clouds.' Told from the dreamlike perspective of a wandering film director, the movie weaves four stories of love and lust, inspired by Antonioni's writings about enigmatic, unrequited or unresolved relationships. Set in several beautiful European locales such as Portofino and Paris, the film uses striking compositions, sensuous shots of lovely nudes and a moving musical score (featuring Van Morrison, U2 and Brian Eno) to create a radiant meditation on love and desire. The film is co-directed by Wim Wenders (Buena Vista Social Club, Wings of Desire) and boasts an eclectic international cast including John Malkovich, Sophie Marceau, Irene Jacob, Jean Reno and Vincent Perez.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - The most beautiful women ever to appear in a single film
If you speak French or can put up with sub-titles, you will really enjoy this movie. If on the other hand you just want to see God's most beautiful creatures, this is a must see. Not an ounce of silicon in sight. Zalman King eat your heart out. Sophie Marceau's body is the epitome of perfection and everything I had ever fantasized about. Her part is even in English. Even the fact that she was nude with John Malkovich did not detract for her beauty. Sophie is a ten if ever there was one. Chiara Caselli ... Read More
Rating:  - An Extreme Film: Lovelorn, Dispair, and Humanity
Wow. I have never witnessed a movie so beautiful and haunting. It really feels like you are there, in the city, witnessing the lives of these amazingly human characters. The huge buildings really are like old "bones growing out from under the fog," and inside this vast timeless landscape are the humans' who's hopes are infinite yet must face the harsh limits of their own flaws and weaknesses. These beautiful love stories evoked a strange and transcendeding feeling from my heart. I can't really put words ... Read More
Rating:  - Visual Glory, Boring Stories.
Director Michelangelo Antonioni has authored many outstanding films as "Blowup" (1966) and "Zabriskie Point" (1970) or more controversial ones as "The Night" (1961) and "Eclipse" (1962). All of them are refined aesthetical "oeuvres d'art" and at the same time they delivered some "message".
Director Wim Wenders has produced also some interesting film pieces as "Paris, Texas" (1984) and "Wings of Desire" Aka "The Sky over Berlin" (1987).
From the combined efforts of both of them I was expecting ... Read More
Rating: - A bit strange but enjoyable!
I just watched this for the second time & It's still a little hard to follow because actually it's 4 stories in one. But the first is the best IMHO but here again the man is hard to understand. A beautiful girl waits all night for him in a lovely nightdress and he stays in his room? Then when they meet again and she lies (...)--he hardly touches her--is this guy nuts?
Rating: - Beyond the Clouds
This summer I read Nathaniel Dorsky's book "Devotional Cinema" and looked at many of the movies he regards as being capable of getting us in touch with our deeper human nature. Among those mentioned were several Antonioni films that have to do with the relationship between men and women. In "La Notte" of crucial importance to the male writer depicted in the movie is woman as muse.
Antonioni revists this theme in "Beyond the Clouds" as he shows how he goes about the creative process of making a film. The ... Read More
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