Head in the Clouds (2004)

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   Siskoid

   Charlize Theron gives a strong performance in Head in the Clouds, but truthfully, what the hell is this movie about?! Spanning more than a decade in a love affair between an idealistic politically-minded boy and a hedonistic libertine girl (which is sometimes polyamorous with the addition of Penelope Cruz's model/nurse/rebel) through the '30s and '40s, it wants to be a big epic like they used to make them, or a novel (not that the narrated prose is in any way more than ordinary), to the point where I started thinking writer-director John Duigan might have had a rejected manuscript in a drawer somewhere. As a romance, even a melodramatic one, it doesn't really explore why these two should be together except a kind of physical pull. Dullish Stuart Townsend's Guy (yes, that's his name) has a better connection with Cruz, but she's cruelly taken out of the film before the end. In fact, both women are punished too harshly for their life choices. Sure, there's a building irony in the fact that Theron denies world events when we know the War will come to her Paris, but the twists and turns in THAT part of the film (which might as well be a different film) don't really connect with what we know of her. Beware book adaptations where there was no book to adapt! 4 years 3 months ago
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   IreneAdler

   Not bad. A passionate story about three people in times of love and war, following the protagonists over the years.
   
   Some great scenes with Charlize Theron, Penélope Cruz and Stuart Townsend make this movie worth watching. 8 years 9 months ago

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