Beyond the Clouds (1995 film)

Beyond the Clouds Italian Al di l delle nuvole French Pardel les nuages is a 1995 ItalianFrenchGerman romance film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and Wim Wenders and starring John Malkovich, Sophie Marceau, Vincent Perez, Irne Jacob, and Jean Reno. The film consists of four stories of romantic love and illusion told from the perspective of a wandering film director. Note In the first story, two beautiful young lovers are unable to consummate their passion because the young man desires impossible perfection. In the second story, the director follows a woman who reveals that she murdered her father. In the third story, a man makes an effort to appease both his wife and his mistress. In the fourth story, a young man is romantically infatuated with a woman who is soon to enter a convent. This was the final film by Antonioni before his death in 2007.

In Ferrara, Italy, Silvano Kim Rossi Stuart meets Carmen Ins Sastre and asks her where he can find a room for the night. She directs him to a hotel where she is staying. After checking in, Silvano sees her in the hotel restaurant and joins her. Silvano learns that Carmen is a teacher. They are attracted to each other, but they retire to their separate rooms. She undresses and waits for him, but he never comes. The next morning, he finds that she has checked out of the hotel.Two years later in a movie theater in Ferrara, Silvano sees Carmen again and later approaches her outside. As they walk past the Castello Estense, she speaks of words that need to be spoken, but he says the only words worth speaking are hidden inside. Silvano walks Carmen to her home, where she reveals that she lived with a man for a year, and only recently he left her. Words do us good, she tells Silvano, even in writing. A woman expects them. She always does. Although seemingly attracted to Silvano, Carmen rebufs his attempted kiss, and he leaves. Later he returns to her room, they undress, and he passes his hand over her skin as if unable to touch her. They move to passionately kiss, but they do not. Finally, he leaves without making passionate love to her. Out in the street, he looks back at her watching from a window. ........

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