BEYOND THE CLOUDS (WIDESCREEN) [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1995
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Made four years ago, seen widely in Europe but glimpsed here only briefly at the New York Film Festival in 1996, Michelangelo Antonioni's mournful movie has at last been given an American release-quite a shift from his earlier career, when a film like 'Blow-Up' could cause an international stir. Antonioni himself has probably changed less than the moviegoing audience; this latest work deals in much the same currency as before-baffling ruminations, foggy days, empty lives, and a helpless reverence for beautiful actresses. There are four connected stories here, set in Italy and France; all of them turn on the coupling and uncoupling of men and women, overseen by a brooding movie director (John Malkovich). Some of the characters are married; others are virtual strangers, which in the world of Antonioni amounts to the same thing. The whole enterprise is humorless and infuriating, and yet it gets to you; no one else could have summoned these twin images of arousal and graceful doom, or drawn such emotional dedication from so rich a cast-Sophie Marceau, Jean Reno, Fanny Ardant, Peter Weller, Jeanne Moreau, and the late Marcello Mastroianni, to name a few. This is the art movie to end all art movies; indeed, it feels like the end
• Cast: Fanny Ardant, Chiara Caselli, Irène Jacob, John Malkovich, Sophie Marceau, Vincent Perez, Jean Reno, Kim Rossi Stuart, Inés Sastre, Peter Weller, Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Enrica Antonioni, Alessandra Bonarotta, J. Emmanuele Gartmann, Michelangelo Antonioni, Wim Wenders, Alfio Contini
• Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
• Runtime: 1:52
• Company: Sunshine, Cine B, france 3 Cinema, Zweite Produktionen Gmbh
• Media Format: movie