Head in the Clouds
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | John Duigan |
| Produced by | Michael Cowan Bertil Ohlsson Jonathan Olsberg Jason Piette Maxime Rémillard André Rouleau |
| Written by | John Duigan |
| Starring |
Charlize Theron Penélope Cruz Stuart Townsend |
| Narrated by | Stuart Townsend |
| Music by | Terry Frewer |
| Cinematography | Paul Sarossy |
| Edited by | Dominique Fortin |
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Production
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Arclight Films
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| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Classics |
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Release date
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(Limited) |
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Running time
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121 minutes Toronto International Film Festival 132 minutes (United States) |
| Country | Canada United Kingdom |
| Language | English French |
| Box office | $3,510,605 |
Head in the Clouds is a 2004 Canadian-British war drama film written and directed by John Duigan. The original screenplay focuses on the choices young lovers must make as they find themselves surrounded by increasing political unrest in late-1930s Europe.
In a prologue, young Gilda Bessé (Charlize Theron), the daughter of a French aristocrat and an emotionally unstable American mother, reluctantly is told by a fortune teller that the life line on her palm doesn't extend past the age of 34. Fast forward to a rainy night in 1933, when she stumbles into the room of Guy Malyon, an Irishman who is a first-year scholarship student at Cambridge University. She has had a lover's quarrel with one of the dons, and rather than turn her out into the storm, Guy gallantly allows her to spend the night. Later, they become lovers, but the two are separated when Gilda's mother dies and she opts to leave England. Several years later, Guy sees her as an extra in a Hollywood film, and shortly after he coincidentally receives a letter from her inviting him to visit her in Paris, where she's working as a photographer.
He discovers she is living with the Spanish-born nursing student/model Mia and has a lover, whom she quickly discards when Guy moves in. The trio are enjoying their unusual living arrangement, but world events are beginning to affect their existence. It is the height of the Spanish Civil War, and idealistic Guy, a long-time supporter of the army of the Second Spanish Republic, is determined to do what he can to help them as Francisco Franco's fascists gain strength. Mia, too, is anxious to come to the aid of her native land. Gilda, however, has no interest in politics or anything else that might disrupt her life of luxury, and pleads with the two to ignore the conflict, but they feel compelled to act and depart for Spain.
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