Vous voulez voir cette page en français ? Cliquez ici.


or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
More Buying Choices
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
Head in the Clouds
 
See larger image 
Share your own customer images

Head in the Clouds

Charlize Theron (Actor), Stuart Townsend (Actor), John Duigan (Director) | Rated: R (Restricted) | Format: DVD
3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
List Price: CDN$ 15.28
Price: CDN$ 13.99 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over CDN$ 25. Details
You Save: CDN$ 1.29 (8%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.ca. Gift-wrap available.
Only 2 left in stock--order soon (more on the way).
Want it delivered Monday, May 28? Choose One-Day Shipping at checkout.

Product Details

Product Description

As war clouds gather over Europe a free-spirited socialite and her two lovers live a life of pleasure and privilege until the Spanish Civil War tears them apart. Starring Charlize Theron and Penelope Cruz. Actors: Charlize Theron - Penlope Cruz - Stuart Townsend. Director: John Duigan. Format: DVD. Format Size: Widescreen. Runtime: 121 mins. Language: English. Subtitle: english Subtitles. Region code: Region 1 (United States Canada Bermuda U.S. territories). Discs: 1. Rating: R. Genre: Romance. Subgenre: Drama. Release Year: 2004.

Tags Customers Associate with This Product

 (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
 
(1)

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags

Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed

 

Customer Reviews

1 Review
5 star:    (0)
4 star:    (0)
3 star:
 (1)
2 star:    (0)
1 star:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
3.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most helpful customer reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars If You Love Charlize Theron, You'll Love This Film, Jan 8 2011
By 
A. Wheeler (Ottawa, Canada) - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)   
This review is from: Head in the Clouds (DVD)
Head in the Clouds is one of those films in which you really have to be in the mood for, and respect the work of its lead star to the point where you would be curious enough to view it. There is no question that this film is a star vehicle for Charlize Theron, and frankly, it is her star power that is the only reason one would want to see this film. The film itself offers nothing unique, since it seems to be an amalgamation of themes from other films - Cabaret; The Way We Were; The Moderns; The Tropic of Cancer; and ad nausea.

The major problem with this film is that it explores none of these themes well, basically a jack of all trades, master of none. It doesn't help matters that the story is a preposterous melodrama that leaves the viewer incapable of deciphering the bizarre behaviour of its characters. Years pass in this film, and yet they don't seem to have any real impact on the characters and their relationship with each other, as if only a matter of days had passed. You just knew this film would be all over the map when it begins with an ominous fortune telling that gives the year of death for the Charlize Theron character.

This film would have been more suitable as a melodramatic TV mini series or even soap opera. At least in a TV mini series you can at least develop the characters as if in a soap opera. This is not to say that the film is not worth viewing, just like you would say the same about a TV soap opera. It all depends on what the viewer expects. In this case, the viewer expects to see a star performance by Charlize Theron, and the supporting work of her then boyfriend, Stuart Townsend, who actually does a good job in his nonsensical role.

If you love Charlize Theron, you'll love this film.
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews 
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com: 3.4 out of 5 stars (42 customer reviews)

19 of 23 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful: A work of poetry, Jun 2 2005
By Jacqueline Marcus - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Head in the Clouds (DVD)
I've read the negative reviews on this film, which convinces me that film critics are so used to the garbage of cheap sex and violence that they can't recognize a diamond in the rust if they tried.

"Head in the Clouds" kept me there every second of the way. Maybe that's because I have the sensibilities of a poet and I'm a philosophy teacher. Maybe this film will not appeal to morons, but it will appeal to intellectuals and artists. So, yes, it's not for everyone. One has to have a degree of intelligence and the passions of a poet to see the value of this film.

As for Stuart Townsend and Charlize Theron, I thought Stuart Townsend MADE this film come to life. He was brilliant! And absolutely convincing in every single second of this film. And Theron was equally captivating.

Let's remember, folks, the critics dumped on "Doctor Zhivago". Now they look like the fools that they are -- because everyone knows it's a work of genius and a classic. Maybe "Head in the Clouds" isn't quite Zhivago, but it deserves praise and certainly does NOT deserve to be judged by swine and morons.

17 of 21 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars The Party's Over, Nov 25 2005
By Vince Perrin "Byline" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Head in the Clouds (DVD)
"Head in the Clouds" is Charlize Theron's during World War II. While her male and female lovers (Stuart Townsend, Penelope Cruz) fret about fascism in Spain and the collapse of The Third Republic, Charlize lives for the pleasures she savors. As Europe is overtaken by war, Theron adapts to whatever will keep her in cafe society, which in occupied Paris means sleeping with Nazis. Her lovers decamp for Spain to fight Franco and Theron moves in with a kindly torturer. Her English lover returns as a resistance fighter and time runs out for our darling dilettante.

Period music, locations, costumes and sets are all lovingly recreated. That can't be said for the script. The actors are beautiful until they start to speak. Cruz is the only one who conveys any depth or conviction. This movie, if you can't tell by now, ends badly for everyone. Crucial information is withheld to provide a surprise ending that fails to deliver. The good intentions of "Head in the Clouds" make its failures more noticeable. You want to like this movie but its surfaces won't let you.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Three nationalities, three twists of fate!, Nov 8 2005
By Hiram Gomez Pardo - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Head in the Clouds (DVD)
Paris, the always shining beacon of the world, is the frame of this interesting and painful portrait around the lives and times of three outlaw human beings: the most liberal of all of them, the authentic center of gravity of manners, tastes and behavior: Charlize Theron plays Gilda, the irreverence made woman, who has given shelter to a nurse - Penelope Cruz - and has allowed her to go ahead with her bliss and dreams. Both of them lives the convulsed and fabulous thirties, where the Charleston and jazz sounds were emerging with particular emphasis. Her brief stage in Cambridge, allows her to meet a very special man, who eventually will become the love of her life.

This unlimited happiness will be interrupted by the war, attending the call of the conscious, curiously. She as a nurse and he, as sensible human being feel that their happy state of life is not in harmony with a bleeding world; in the neighbor country Spain: The Civil War is a very hard reality to ignore it. That fact will break this curious triangle and both of them will become protagonists of this drama.

Charlize is absolutely devastated in this sense, but this emotional crossroad, this existential dilemma will transform her, leaving behind all the selfishness and she will do her best, according her possibilities to contribute the cause against the world of shadows.

A convincing script with certain narrative pauses, but with enough rhythmic pulse to arrive to a crude but satisfactory conclusion. Charlize Theron was marvelous and credible. Her kaleidoscopic beauty allows her to combine several behaviors: as femme fatale, alluring lover and elusively enigmatic character.

Filmed with a visible inspirational European flavor, that reminded me to Claude Sautet.
› Go to Amazon.com to see all 42 reviews  3.4 out of 5 stars 
 
 
Only search this product's reviews


Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Look for similar items by subject


















i.e., each DVD must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Feedback

Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Amazon.ca Privacy Statement Amazon.ca Shipping Information Amazon.ca Returns & Exchanges