MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

basilisksamuk Head in the Clouds walks a thin line between a decent drama and a frock film. I nearly didn't make it past the early part of the film as it looked to shaping up as an episode of Downton Abbey or some other boring frock film. However, once we got over that section and moved to France it picked up.Charlize Theron and Penelope Cruz carried the film as far as I was concerned and I always found their characters believable. Theron is convincingly annoying and lightweight through most of the film and this really pays off in the resolution of her story arc. Cruz is just a great actress and it's good to see her getting worthwhile parts. I was less certain of Stuart Townsend but I suspect that was because of the character he was playing rather than any deficiencies in his acting ability. Guy, his character, comes across as rather wet and his transformation into action hero is hard to believe. The character has that annoying way of narrating events in a slightly whiny voice with a falling cadence that is hard to like. (Bearing in mind my anti-frock film, doomed character hating stance.) In many ways this reminded me of Black Book though it wasn't as good. You'll probably like it if you like frock films. You'll probably like it if you have any interest in WWII. Often this is an uneasy marriage of different genres but on the whole it makes for an interesting and engaging viewing.

merylmatt When I say pretty I don't mean just the actors Charlize (Gilda)Penelope Cruz and Stuart Townsend(Guy). Very nice epic/period piece that starts off post World War 1 and ends in 1945. The costumes, cars, homes, backdrops are gorgeous.I thought the movie was too long. After about 45 minutes, you get the idea that the main character is a spoiled rich hedonist who wants to escape reality. She was a feminist before there were such things.**Spoilerer** You also catch on quickly that everyone loves Gilda, but she is incapable of returning love or loyalty. Or is she? Can there be last minute redemption? In the movies, sure. My biggest problem with this flick is that it has been done before - see the Winds of War for example amongst others. If you've never seen a period piece of the 1930's, this may wow you.

dgg32 Directly after watching Theron's highly acclaimed movie "the Monster", I immediately turned to her next, namely the subject here "Head in the clouds". Although I understand little about what this title means. But Theron's performance in that film is simply convincing and brilliant. Purely from her appearance I already give the film 7 stars.In the monster, Theron has totally deformed herself. 30 pounds weight gain. Amazing, but meanwhile her makeup there also totally destroyed her impression in my mind--ugly and rough, disgusting. Because she had so successfully embodied Lee, the title role, she won a dozen prizes for it, at the price of her image of course. After all, I prefer that sweet Theron.In the "the Italian job" she had once showed the sweetness. Here in Head in the clouds the second time. Gilda is a very complex person. She lived at first quite cynically, never invested her emotion at any thing. But after meeting Guy, she changed. Even that hasn't help her to survive the war. Her tragic end of life is heartbreaking, without letting people know what good she had done during the war. Even though she was a playgirl, she is the most emotional character in the whole movie.

mario_c This movie is an "epoch drama" about the romance story between the two main characters, Guy (Stuart Townseed) and Gilda (Charlize Theron). It all started in 1933 in Cambridge University where they met each other for the first time. Though, they were together just for one night. But it was kind of love at first sight and along the movie they will be together and separated for many times. It's their destiny… However, to their love one more soul will be joined. Her name is Mia (Penelope Cruz). For a part of the movie they will be a love triangle, but then the war separated them…You need to have some acknowledgment about the European's history of the 30's and 40's, and about the wars of that period, to understand the movie's pace and the plot's background. You need that to follow this movie and understand its settings and the behaviors of the mains characters. Just understanding the ideals which are related to the social conflicts and wars of that period we can follow their actions and attitudes… and also the "betrayals"…The pace is a bit confusing because the story passes between 1933 and 1944 and along this period of time we watch several scenes in different "times" and "places". The plot is always "jumping" in time and space… It turns out a bit confusing because if we watch one 5 minutes' scene in 1933 then, suddenly, it quickly moves to one year later. Then we watch one more couples of scenes in 1936 and it quickly moves to 1940, for example. The same happens with the settings. If one scene is in England, sooner the other will be in Paris… The costumes and the scenario's production are excellent, which makes this movie a good one if we relate it to the history's genre. However the plot disappointed me a little bit, not only because it's a bit confusing, but especially because it was too different from what I expected. I think I was expecting a different (and also deeper) love triangle story. Something more intense about the three characters, and not that this love triangle was just a "part" of the story/movie, as it is.