Friday, September 01, 2006

Head in the Clouds (2004)

Rating: 47.
Synopsis: An Irish guy studying in England meets an American young woman in 1933; she lives in Paris with a Spanish young woman; the three of them will go through various periods of peacetime and wartime, sometimes together and other times apart, until 1945.
Appraisal: I found this film seriously lacking in terms of script. It just doesn't develop into something really substantial, though there are enjoyable moments in it, and it has good dialogue and good actors.
**MILD SPOILERS AHEAD**

I found the ending particularly frustrating and unreasonable; though it is not implausible in strictly historical terms, I thought it was somewhat contrived, only, oddly enough, this time it was contrived for unhappiness.

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