Beyond the Clouds
According
to
film critic Jeffrey Gantz, director Michelangelo Antonioni creates films
that will make you rethink your existence. Beyond The Clouds, comprised
of four short tales, was directed with the collaborative efforts of German great
Wim Wenders and features an outstanding cast of international actors:: John
Malkovich, Sophie Marceau, Fanny Ardant, Irène Jacob, Jeanne Moreau,
and Marcello Mastroianni (among others). The film was released in 1995 in Europe
to critically acclaim but only recently found distribution in the states--perhaps
because of the indie success of Malkovich's latest film Being
John Malkovich or Sophie
Marceau's big budget hit The World is Not Enough. I say: it's about
time.
Reviews
Jeffrey Gantz, The Boston Phoenix
"Forget Must See TV -- this is Must See Filmmaking. "Stephen Holden, The New York Times
"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."
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Quote from the Director
Cinema today should be tied to the truth rather than logic . . . The rhythm of life is not made up of one steady beat; it is, instead, a rhythm that is sometimes fast, sometimes slow . . . There are times when it appears almost static . . . I think that through these pauses, through this attempt to adhere to a definite reality -- spiritual, internal, even moral -- there springs forth what today is more and more coming to be known as modern cinema, that, a cinema which is not so much concerned with externals as it is with those forces that move us to act in a certain way and not in another.
--Michelangelo Antonioni
