
Four short tales are linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence, and Paris, each story, always with a woman as its crux, invites the viewer to an inner travel, as Antonioni says "towards the true image of that absolute and mysterious reality that nobody will ever see".... (Full plot summary below)
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Four short tales are linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence, and Paris, each story, always with a woman as its crux, invites the viewer to an inner travel, as Antonioni says "towards the true image of that absolute and mysterious reality that nobody will ever see".
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| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonThe moments that work in this movie (and there are many) remind us that most other films of today still have a long way to go. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyThough not vintage Antonioni, this later work (supervised by Wim Wenders), a meditation on eros, love, and desire, features some of the most beautiful actresses working today: Fanny Ardant, Irene Jacob, and Sophie Marceau. |
| San Diego MetropolitanJean LowerisonSee this film. It may be Antonioni's last. |
| New York TimesStephen HoldenThere 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. |
| San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannIt's that compelling sense of mystery, of the endless search and its undercurrent of loneliness, that sets this great filmmaker apart. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThere are a lot of beautiful things in Beyond the Clouds: the style, the settings, the bodies of young men and women-many of them beautiful in the vaguely blank way that models are. |
| Internet ReviewsSteve RhodesA slightly erotic and decidedly offbeat movie, Beyond the Clouds has a strong attraction that is hard to put into words. A frustrating film, it is simultaneously bizarrely fascinating and soporifically unsatisfying. |
| eFilmCritic.comGreg MuskewitzA bit dreamy, but in the way that leads to a doze. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzIt is in the enigma of what it is the lovers want or why they are compelled to want certain things that makes this a fascinating film. |
| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenBeyond the Clouds is a magnificent coda to a career spent excavating images and probing the silences that exist between people. |