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Actors: Charlize Theron, Stuart Townsend, Penelope Cruz
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Head in the Clouds |
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Head in the Clouds
Directed by John Duigan, 2004
Staring Charlize Theron, Stuart Townsend and Penelope Cruz
This is a wartime romance set in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. Gilda Besse (Theron), daughter of an American socialite and French Count, is a worldly woman of the post World War I era who settles in Paris as a fashion photographer. Guy (Townsend) is a student from Northern Ireland who first meets Gilda at Cambridge where he was a student and she was dating one of the masters. A friendship develops between them and is maintained as she sets off to tour the world and he finishes school and becomes a school teacher in London's east end.
Guy is an an idealist concerned with the plight of the poor and downtrodden and is especially troubled by the struggle against the Fascists in Spain. Gilda, on the other hand, seeks to experience life to the fullest and lives for the moment unhindered by the past or the future. When Gilda ends her wandering and settles in Paris her love affair with Guy again blossoms and he joins her in Paris. Guy works as Gilda's assistant and lives with her and Mia, a refugee from the Civil War in Spain who models for Gilda, in Gilda's apartment. The three lovers enjoy the bohemian life of Paris in the 1930s but Guy and Mia become increasingly troubled by the Fascist atrocities in Spain and the two of them ultimately break up with Gilda and go to Spain where Guy joins the Republican forces as a soldier and Mia as a nurse.
Returning to England following the defeat of the Republican side in Spain, Guy longs to make contact again with Gilda but World War II blocks all contact with Paris. Joining the British Army as an intelligence officer, Guy spends the war behind the lines working with the underground French Resistance. While on an undercover mission to Paris he meets Gilda who is now dating a high ranking Nazi SS officer. Guy faces the choice of his love for Gilda or duty to his cause.
--Chuck Nugent, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- love triangle/polygon
War impact on civilians/veterans
Yes
Kind of conflict:
- war, WW II
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- simply wealthy
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- blonde
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Irish/McCourt
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
City?
Yes
City:
- Paris
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very explicit references to deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- thoughtful
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- lesbians!
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- sex under blankets
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