Without grounding in specific causes-and-effects, the film is just another dreary wallow in self-pity.
Days and Clouds(Giorni e nuvole)
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Italy, Switzerland, France · 2007
1h 55m
Director Silvio Soldini
Starring Margherita Buy, Antonio Albanese, Giuseppe Battiston, Alba Rohrwacher
Genre Drama
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Happily married with successful careers, Michele and Elsa are living a luxurious life together in Genoa. Everything changes when Michele unexpectedly loses his job, forcing the couple to give up their lavish lifestyle. Growing financial struggles put strain on Michele and Elsa's relationship, driving their once idyllic marriage to its breaking point.
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For Soldini, even bleakness has a poetic side, and his imagery is occasionally breathtaking here -- never more so than in the film's final tableau, which elegantly connects a Renaissance fresco Elsa had been working on before the couple's fall from grace with a strikingly similar real-life image suggesting the possibility of a renaissance in their marriage.
It plays out more like a 12-step program than a human drama.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
A brave film simply for daring to portray a nightmare lurking in the minds of middle-aged workers, people who might fear a film that addresses their insecurities this bluntly.
In American movies, the iconic question usually is, can men and women be friends without the sex part getting in the way? Here it's, can a husband appreciate his wife as a woman? The movie's success in Italy is partly a matter of frustration: Women need their men to grow up.
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