Days and Clouds(Giorni e nuvole)

Village Voice by

Without grounding in specific causes-and-effects, the film is just another dreary wallow in self-pity.

NPR by Bob Mondello

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.

L.A. Weekly by Ella Taylor

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.

Boston Globe by Wesley Morris

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.