Days and Clouds - 2122

Name: Days and Clouds - 2122
Brand: Dream Books Co.
SKU: DBV.B001BXWWOW.G
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Review How a marriage copes with severe economic challenges is the theme of Silvio Soldini s superb, moving and thought-provoking film.Few films have dealt more incisively or compassionately with marriage than Silvio Soldinis Days and Clouds. In Genoa, Elsa and Michele (Margherita Buy, Antonio Albanese) suddenly find themselves financially downsized, and must deal with the horror of losing apartment and face among their yuppie friends, as well as their own daughter, hard-working restaurateur, Alice (Alba Rohrwacher). They decide to conceal their plight from everyone and, as Michele becomes first an apartment renovator and then a motorcycle messenger and Elsa gives up her beloved studies for an art history degree to do secretarial work, an inevitable toll is taken on their relationship. It s a simple yet gripping story which could happen to anyone, and Soldini s finely observed, marvelously sensitive writing and direction draw you in like a subtle whirlpool. At first glimpse, Elsa and Michele seem an averagely attractive, upscale couple but, such are the magnetism and power of the performances of the actors that they grow more beautiful in their deepening humanity and you come to love them. Buy is ferociously intelligent and appealingly resilient, even going through nightmare times, while Albanese is a genuine modern hero, heartbreaking as he picks up the check at dinner party in an empty show of bravado before an appalled Elsa, and then impressively infuriated in his confrontation with friends who ve betrayed him, like his ex-business partner and in a scene in which he reluctantly tries to get a buddy to repay him for an ancient, blithely disremembered financial loan. There is, perforce, a lot of fighting here, especially between Elsa and Michele, but the combat rings emotionally true and absorbing at all times, welling up suddenly, as with the stubborn, compassionate Alice (an excellent, no-nonsense Rohrwacher) but also, as with real intimates, dissipating as suddenly into a more contemplative remorse. It s the kind of film Hollywood should be making now in these financially straitened times for Americans, giving us something we can relate to besides comic strips and commercial fluff. Even the smallest roles like two buddies who help Michele with the apartment work, their various clients, Elsa s co-workers on the restoration of a Renaissance fresco, and her new boss, who takes a quite understandable fancy to her, are sublimely cast. They all comprise the essence of cinema so lacking in so many films today: real people going through real stuff with humor and mordant fortitude. As more and more of that fresco reveals itself to our enchanted eyes, so too do these characters inner glory becomes ever more apparent in this warm, deeply rewarding work. --Film Journal International Critic Pick / Listed as one of top 10 Summer Art films --The New York Times WINNER - Best Actress - David Di Donatello Awards (Italian Oscars®) WINNER - Best Supporting Actress - David Di Donatello Awards (Italian Oscars®) NOMINATED - Best Director - David Di Donatello Awards (Italian Oscars®) NOMINATED - Best Producer - David Di Donatello Awards (Italian Oscars®) WINNER - Best Actress - Moscow Int'l Film Festival Official Selection - Toronto Int'l Film Festival Official Selection - Seattle Int'l Film Festival Official Selection - BFI London Film Festival Official Selection - Rome Film Festival Official Selection - Munich Film Festival Official Selection - Newport Int'l Film Festival Official Selection - Open Roads Film Festival Official Selection - Martha's Vineyard Int'l Film Festival Official Selection - Scottsdale Int'l Film Festival Official Selection - San Juan Int'l Film Festival Official Selection - Italian Film Festival Official Selection - St. Louis Int'l Film Festival Official Selection - Fort Lauderdale Int'l Film Festival Official Selection - Modern Italian Film Festival ---- Critic Pick / Listed as one of top 10 Summer Art films --The New
ASIN: B001BXWWOW
VSKU: DBV.B001BXWWOW.G
Condition: Good
Binding: DVD

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