Beyond The Clouds

Starring:Fanny Ardant, Chiara Caselli, IrÃ¨ne Jacob, John Malkovich, Sophie Marceau, Vincent Perez, Jean Reno, Kim Rossi Stuart, InÃ©s Sastre, Peter Weller, Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Enrica Antonioni, Carine Angeli, Alessandra Bonarotta, Laurence Calabrese, Tracey Caligiuri, HervÃ© DÃ©calion, J. Emmanuele Gartmann, Sherman Green
Director: Wim Wenders, Michelangelo Antonioni
Studio: Image Entertainment
Product Type: DVD

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:

The most beautiful women ever to appear in a single film.......2007-06-23

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 and Inés Sastre are 9.5s. Oh yeah, it is a pretty good story. Several little vignettes are woven together in a sort of Six Degrees of Separation style.

Choose the seller carefully.......2007-01-31

This review is skewed by my miserable experience with the amazon seller. Many may be superb or at least acceptable...a few are unscrupulous.

First, the movie itself is a must for Antonioni and Marceau fans. The other reviewers do a good job of describing why. But the DVD I got was a censored Asian copy. The quality was lousy, as is typical of a bootleg. When I complained, I got nowhere. The seller never answered my email.

An Extreme Film: Lovelorn, Dispair, and Humanity.......2007-01-27

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 on it. They were real, surreal, and eternal. There is a indescribable and unseen dimension to everything in this film: the lives of those living inside the great buildings, the enigmatic little streets covered with fog and rain.

Watch this movie alone and with the lights off. I promise you will experience something hauntingly beautiful that will stay with you for a lifetime.

Visual Glory, Boring Stories........2005-03-03

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 a "major". Unfortunately is not the case here.
The movie tries to depict the "creation process" of a film director. It presents four short stories of male-female encounters. Possibly they occur in the Directors imagination and are triggered by surrounding environment. They are unrelated among them and, at least to my perception, they do not have any strong coherence.

The sights are great: misty roads in amazing Italian towns; shops bordering a gorgeous lake; seaside views; light and shadows combined in exquisite photogram. Almost every bit of the film may be considered a visual joy.

For males delight nude scenes of Sophie Marceau, Ines Sastre and Chiara Caselli are shown gracefully. Alas for the ladies, only John Malkovitch "derriere" is shown.

Original music score by Bono and Adam Clayton as U2 is also very good.

It is a film that brings to memory more successful examples of "intellectual `60es" filmography, without reaching their deepness.
Reviewed by Max Yofre.

A bit strange but enjoyable!.......2005-01-12

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?

Beyond the Clouds (Al di là delle nuvole) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Italy ]

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Beyond the Clouds (Al di là delle nuvole) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Italy ]
Director: Wim Wenders , and Michelangelo Antonioni
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Product Description

Italy released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. LANGUAGES: English (Dolby Digital 2.0), Italian (Dolby Digital 2.0), Italian (Subtitles), WIDESCREEN (1.66:1), SYNOPSIS: Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which always a woman as the crux of the story, invites to an inner travel, as Antonioni says 'towards the true image of that absolute and mysterious reality that nobody will ever see'. SPECIAL FEATURES: Biographies, Filmographies, Interactive Menu, Scene Access,

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