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  • 2008
  • Unrated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 58 m
  • 2008
  • Unrated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 58 m

Summary 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 ove...

Directed By: Silvio Soldini

Written By: Doriana Leondeff, Francesco Piccolo, Federica Pontremoli, Silvio Soldini

  • 2008
  • Unrated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 58 m
  • 2008
  • Unrated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 58 m

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Summary 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 ove...

Directed By: Silvio Soldini

Written By: Doriana Leondeff, Francesco Piccolo, Federica Pontremoli, Silvio Soldini

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
69
78% Positive
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22% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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78% Positive
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22% Mixed
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90
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.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
83
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
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.
By Bob Mondello FULL REVIEW
70
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
An intelligent adult drama that's especially relevant in these harsh economic times.
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50
It plays out more like a 12-step program than a human drama.
By Ella Taylor FULL REVIEW
50
Without grounding in specific causes-and-effects, the film is just another dreary wallow in self-pity.
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Production Company Amka Films Productions, Lumière & Co., RSI-Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (MiBAC), Eurimages, GenovaSet - City of Genova Film Commission, Bundesamt für Kultur (BAK)
Release Date Jul 11, 2008
Duration 1 h 58 m
Rating Unrated
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Tagline Brilliant... Striking!
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Awards

David di Donatello Awards
• 2 Wins & 15 Nominations
Golden Ciak Awards
• 1 Win & 9 Nominations
Kineo Awards, Italy
• 6 Nominations

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