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Days and Clouds

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama

Written by: Silvio Soldini
Federica Pontremoli
Francesco Piccolo
Doriana Leondeff

Directed by: Silvio Soldini

Release Date:
Theatrical: July 11, 2008
DVD: February 3, 2009

Running Time: 115 minutes, Color

Origin: Italy | Switzerland

Language(s): Italian

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Starring Margherita Buy, Antonio Albanese, Giuseppe Battiston, Alba Rohrwacher, Carla Signoris, Fabio Troiano, Paolo Sassanelli, and Arnaldo Ninchi

Well-to-do, sophisticated couple, Elsa and Michele, have a 20 year-old daughter, Alice, and enough money for Elsa to leave her job and fulfill an old dream of studying art history. After she graduates, however, their lives change. Michele confesses he hasn't worked in two months and was fired by the company he founded years ago. Elsa overcomes her initial shock by pouring extra energy into facing the crisis while Michele, exhausted by an unsuccessful job hunt, lets himself go, alternating between vivacity and apathy. The growing distance between them eventually leads to a break-up. Only when they are apart will they realize that they risk losing their most precious possession: the love that binds them. (Film Movement)

What The Critics Said

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90

The New York Times Stephen Holden

A brave film simply for daring to portray a nightmare lurking in the minds of middle-aged workers, people who might fear a film that addresses their insecurities this bluntly.

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83

The Onion (A.V. Club) Sam Adams

At times, Soldini gets so wrapped up in his characters' suffering that the movie loses perspective; it's a little hard to sympathize when the couple's needs grow so great that they're forced to sell their boat.

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75

NPR Bob Mondello

For Soldini, even bleakness has a poetic side, and his imagery is occasionally breathtaking here -- never more so than in the film's final tableau, which elegantly connects a Renaissance fresco Elsa had been working on before the couple's fall from grace with a strikingly similar real-life image suggesting the possibility of a renaissance in their marriage.

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75

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

In American movies, the iconic question usually is, can men and women be friends without the sex part getting in the way? Here it's, can a husband appreciate his wife as a woman? The movie's success in Italy is partly a matter of frustration: Women need their men to grow up.

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70

Washington Post John Anderson

Sometimes art imitates life; sometimes it is life. If the market gets any worse, Days and Clouds could kill realism outright.

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70

The Hollywood Reporter Natasha Senjanovic

At times "Days" seems more of a social commentary on the shrinking middle class than the will-they-or-won't-they-make-it story at the heart of the film.

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70

Los Angeles Times Gary Goldstein

An intelligent adult drama that's especially relevant in these harsh economic times.

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50

LA Weekly Ella Taylor

It plays out more like a 12-step program than a human drama.

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50

Village Voice Vadim Rizov

Without grounding in specific causes-and-effects, the film is just another dreary wallow in self-pity.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes

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