Head in the clouds
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Women's games |
| Original title | Head in the clouds |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English , German , French , Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 121 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Duigan |
| script | John Duigan |
| production |
Michael Cowan , Bertil Ohlsson , Jonathan Olsberg , Jason Piette , Maxime Rémillard , André Rouleau |
| music | Terry Frewer |
| camera | Paul Sarossy |
| cut | Dominique Fortin |
| occupation | |
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Head in the Clouds (Alternative title: Head in the Clouds ) is a film drama by John Duigan from the year 2004 .
action
Gilda Bessé, daughter of a wealthy French winemaker and an American, and her friends visit a fortune teller in the 1920s who refuses to predict Gilda's future after seeing her hand. At Gilda's urging, the woman says she saw Gilda when she was 34 years old.
In the early 1930s, Gilda Bessé studied at Cambridge University . She happened to be hiding in Guy's room after visiting her lover when she ran away from a janitor so as not to expose the lover employed at the university. Gilda and Guy spend the night together and become friends later. Gilda says she believes in the fate that brought her to Guy's room.
After a while, Gilda embarks on an extended journey. She writes Guy's letters from the places she visits.
Gilda worked as an art photographer in Paris in the 1930s . She is having a lesbian affair with the nurse Mia, who fled Spain . At times she has another affair with the gallery owner Max, who exhibits her pictures, but does not attach any importance to this relationship. During this time, Gilda, Mia and Guy share a flat for a year.
One day Mia is whipped and injured in the back by a sadistic admirer. Gilda arranges to meet the man on the pretext that she can take more . During the date, she ties him to the bed and whips him. Meanwhile, Mia and Guy spend the time in the cinema, where they see news from the Spanish Civil War . Guy then decides to join the international brigades to fight against fascism . Mia also goes to Spain as a nurse. Gilda says the war is none of her business and is upset that her friends are leaving her. She does not write to Mia or Guy, although she receives letters from both on a regular basis.
Mia meets Guy in Spain, to whom she reveals that she was jealous of him. Guy reveals something similar to her, whereupon he spends a night with her. The next day, when her ambulance is destroyed by a land mine, Mia dies.
Guy returns to Paris, but is spurned by Gilda and goes back to England. After the Second World War began , Guy worked for the British secret service. In 1944 he returned to France as a liaison for the Resistance . Gilda now has a relationship with a German SD officer , Frans Bietrich, who is celebrating her 33rd birthday with her. Through this connection she succeeds in warning Guy of a trap that Bietrich is trying to set him. Guy is badly wounded in an act of sabotage and is flown to England, where he learns that Gilda is supplying the British with intelligence. In August 1944 he followed the Allied troops to Paris.
During the struggle for the liberation of Paris, Bietrich is shot by the French in front of Gilda. Gilda is insulted as a German whore by the angry crowd and killed by a Resistance fighter whose sister Bietrich tortured for days and then killed.
Guy finds a letter in Gilda's apartment in which, shortly before her death, she stated that after Guy's and Mia's departure, she began not to regard the war as a distant affair. However, she continues to believe in fate that will determine her life.
Reviews
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of October 1, 2004 that the film shows a love triangle with World War II as the background. Charlize Theron is one of the few actresses who are suitable for the role of Gilda. The characters of Gilda and Mia, however, are "film lesbians" whose relationship should make men especially aware and excited ("Of course Mia and Gilda are lovers, sort of; they're the kind of movie lesbians whose relationships exist primarily to accommodate the men in their lives and excite the men in their audience ").
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was "a melodrama that oscillates between Scott Fitzgerald , Ernest Hemingway and" Casablanca "and that is lost in clichés so that not only the characters lose their grip on the ground".
Awards
Paul Sarossy for the camerawork, Mario Davignon for the costumes, Dominique Fortin for the editing and Terry Frewer for the film music won the 2005 Genie Award . The film received three other nominations for this award. Paul Sarossy won the Canadian Society of Cinematographers Award in 2005 . John Duigan won a prize at the Film Festival Internazionale di Milano in 2005 . Mario Davignon was nominated for the Prix Jutra in 2005.
backgrounds
The drama was shot in London , Cambridge , Montreal and Paris . It was shown in no more than 47 cinemas in the United States, grossing approximately $ 398,000.
Web links
- Head in the Clouds in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website (English)
- Head in the Clouds at Metacritic (English)
- Head in the Clouds at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Head in the Clouds . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2004 (PDF; test number: 100 479 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Head in the Clouds . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ Film review by Roger Ebert, accessed October 30, 2008
- ^ Head in the Clouds in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on November 6, 2007
- ^ Filming locations for Head in the Clouds, accessed November 5, 2007
- ↑ Box office / business for Head in the Clouds, accessed November 5, 2007