Beyond the clouds
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| German title | Beyond the clouds |
| Original title | Al di là delle nuvole |
| Country of production | Italy , France , Germany |
| original language | Italian , French , English |
| Publishing year | 1995 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director |
Michelangelo Antonioni , Wim Wenders |
| script | Michelangelo Antonioni, Wim Wenders, Tonino Guerra , Soheil Ghodsy |
| production |
Philippe Carcassonne , Stéphane Tchalgadjieff , Ulrich Felsberg , Vittorio Cecchi Gori |
| music |
Lucio Dalla , Laurent Petitgand , Van Morrison , U2 |
| camera |
Alfio Contini , Robby Müller |
| cut | Michelangelo Antonioni, Claudio Di Mauro , Peter Przygodda , Lucian Segura |
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Beyond the clouds (Original title: Al di là delle nuvole ) is an Italian - French - German episode film by Michelangelo Antonioni from 1995, which was made with the support of Wim Wenders .
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A director travels through Italy and France with a camera and notepad in search of inspiration for a new film. He stops in Ferrara , Portofino , Paris and Aix-en-Provence . All the stories he witnesses are about the relationship between two people, about love and its end:
1st episode: Chronicle of a love that never existed ( Cronaca di un amore mai esistito )
Silvano meets the teacher Carmen in Ferrara. When asked where he could spend the night, she recommends the hotel where she is currently staying. They see each other again in the hotel restaurant there. They feel drawn to each other, but later go to their own hotel room. Carmen then waits in vain for Silvano in her room. The next morning he learns that she has already left.
Two years later, Silvano sees Carmen again in a local cinema and speaks to her on the street. He leads her home, where she lived for a year with a man from whom she is now separated. Although Carmen is still drawn to Silvano, she does not agree to his attempt to kiss her. He leaves, but comes back later. Both undress but are unable to touch or kiss. Silvano longs for perfection and is afraid that living out his desires could destroy the intensity of this, which is why he leaves Carmen again.
2nd episode: A girl, a crime ( La ragazza, il delitto )
In Portofino the director meets a melancholy young woman who immediately fascinates him. He follows her into the store she works for and they make eye contact. However, without having spoken to each other, the director leaves the shop. They meet again in a café. After she confessed to him that she murdered her father a year ago and spent three months in jail until she was acquitted, they go to her apartment and sleep together. Later, the director sits by a hotel pool and thinks about the story of the young woman and how she will influence his new film.
3rd episode: The wheel - don't look for me ( La rota - Non mi cercare )
In a Paris café, a young woman speaks to a man and they start talking. Three years later, the man comes back from meeting the young woman with whom he is now having a relationship. His wife Patricia, suffering from her husband's infidelity, demands that he choose one of them. He promises to end his affair and they sleep together for the first time in a long time. When the man returns to his lover and tells her that he has slept with his wife, she reacts jealously. They start arguing, but then end up in bed together again.
After Patricia filed for divorce and looked for a new apartment, she met the previous tenant Carlo there. His wife has just left him for her lover and has moved most of their common things out of the apartment. Touched by their similarly painful experiences, Carlo takes Patricia's hand and kisses it.
The director then takes a train through a rural area, reflecting on life and its limits. On a hill, a painter captures the landscape in a picture and explains to a woman how important it is to copy from the great masters.
4th episode: This Body of Dust ( Questo corpo di fango )
In Aix-en-Provence, the director looks at the pictures of his hotel hanging on the wall and notices a young man named Niccolo. This then runs after a pretty girl on the street. He tries to involve the young woman in a conversation, but she lets him down. However, he remains persistent and follows her first to a church, where she attends a devotional mass, and later in the rain to her apartment. He really wanted to see her again. However, she explains to him that she will soon be entering a monastery and thus renounce worldly life.
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Paul Cézanne's painting Man with Crossed Arms and Mont Sainte-Victoire
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Beyond the Clouds consists of four episodes based on sketches from Michelangelo Antonioni's book Bowling am Tiber . Each of the four episodes is an independent love story and tells of a different inner inhibition that opposes sexual pleasure: fear of destroying the intensity of an emotion that exists in the imagination ( chronicle of a love that never existed ), memory of sexual abuse ( a Girls, a crime ), fear of the interchangeability of the partner ( The Wheel - Don't Search Me ) and renunciation of physical love in favor of transcendent devotion ( This body made of dust ). These self-contained stories are spanned by a framework that was staged by director Wim Wenders in the form of a prologue , epilogue and connecting sequences . He lets a director, played by John Malkovich , reason about the individual actions. Wenders had agreed to do this work because Antonioni, then 83, had been paralyzed on one side and unable to speak since 1985 as a result of a stroke.
The transition between the third and fourth episode contains two scenes that take up, among other things, Peter Handke's associations with the portrait of the Man with Crossed Arms by Paul Cézanne and his landscape of Mont Sainte-Victoire . In the film, the narrator also recreates the posture of the person portrayed by Cézanne, while a painter, played by Marcello Mastroianni , tries to copy Mont Sainte-Victoire .
The film was shot Beyond the Clouds on original locations in Ferrara, Portofino, Paris and Aix-en-Provence. On September 3, 1995, the film premiered at the Venice International Film Festival . In Germany it was released in cinemas on November 9, 1995. It was released on DVD in 2005.
Reviews
The lexicon of international film found that Michelangelo Antonioni had shown himself to be “an eternal flaneur of the feminine topography of desire, abandonment and loss” with the film, but criticized the fact that “the emphatically picturesque scenes of his film […] are vague allusions and symbolisms "Lose," whereby the meticulous will to style all too often turns into sterility, low-tension transcendence into triviality ". But the film can be fascinating "as a persistent search for the poetry of places and their moods: Ferrara in the fog, Portofino in the storm, Aix-en-Provence in the rain".
Kino.de said that despite the "grandiose monologue [...] the four episodes pale into insignificance". Antonioni probably only staged these encounters in order to get as many young and above all naked people in front of the lens ". The film is "a wonderfully illustrated, perfectly illuminated work of the age", but "only the not always successful copy of a masterpiece, like the picture of Cézanne that Marcello Mastroianni tries to recreate in a cameo - one of the highlights of the film" . Also Cinema spoke of a "late work of a once all-time greats" in which the "all-star, but streaky episodes [...] Antonioni eternal theme of the alienation between man and woman" circle.
Awards
Alfio Contini received the David di Donatello for his camera work . Jenseits der Wolken was awarded the Nastro d'Argento in the category Best Film Music . The film was awarded the FIPRESCI prize at the Venice International Film Festival . He also received a nomination for the Golden Ear of the Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid .
German version
The German dubbed version was created at Interopa Film in Berlin based on the dialogue book by Leon Boden , who also directed the dialogue.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
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| Patricia | Fanny Ardant | Kerstin Sanders-Dornseif |
| Lover | Chiara Caselli | Alexandra Wilcke |
| girl | Irène Jacob | Schaukje Könning |
| Director | John Malkovich | Joachim Tennstedt |
| girl | Sophie Marceau | Judith Brandt |
| Niccolo | Vincent Perez | Patrick Winczewski |
| Carlo | Jean Reno | Roland Hemmo |
| Silvano | Kim Rossi Stuart | Stefan Gossler |
| Carmen | Inés Sastre | Claudia Lehmann |
| husband | Peter Weller | Frank Glaubrecht |
| painter | Marcello Mastroianni | Ulrich Voss |
| girlfriend | Jeanne Moreau | Barbara Adolph |
literature
- Michelangelo Antonioni: Bowling on the Tiber: Stories . Wagenbach, Berlin, 1985, ISBN 3-8031-0142-5 , ( Quarthefte ), (further edition: Chronicle of a love that never existed: Stories . Wagenbach, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-8031-1153-6 ).
- Wim Wenders: The time with Antonioni: Chronicle of a film . Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt am Main, 1995, ISBN 3-88661-162-0 .
- Uwe Müller: The intimate realism of Michelangelo Antonioni . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2004, ISBN 3-8334-1060-4 , pp. 302f.
Web links
- Beyond the Clouds in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Beyond the Clouds at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Beyond the clouds on michelangeloantonioni.it (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ “When I readjusted his posture, the hand that was stretched out from under his arm was astonishing, and it really took a will to break away from the entanglement. “Peter Handke: The teaching of the Sainte-Victoire . P. 36; quoted from: Thomas Hennig: Intertextuality as an ethical dimension: Peter Handke's aesthetics “after Auschwitz” . Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 1996. Chap. 4.2.4 The man with the crossed arms - from the pre-image to the after-image . P. 186f.
- ↑ Handke, p. 24; see also: Alexander Huber: Peter Handke's Aesthetics of Difference . Würzburg, 2005. Chap. VI.2.2 The teaching of St. Victoire: The teaching of the void . P. 369f.
- ↑ Beyond the clouds. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 19, 2020 .
- ↑ cf. kino.de
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ↑ Beyond the clouds. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 23, 2020 .