Beyond the Clouds
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni, Wim Wenders
Genre: Romance Film, World cinema, Romantic drama, Drama
Year: 1995
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Starring: John Malkovich, Sophie Marceau, Vincent Pérez, Peter Weller, Jean Reno, Irène Jacob
Beyond the Clouds (Italian: Al di là delle nuvole; French: Par-dela les nuages) is a 1995 Italian-French-German film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and Wim Wenders and starring John Malkovich, Sophie Marceau, Vincent Perez, Irène Jacob, and Jean Reno.
Four stories of love and illusion are told from the perspective of a wandering film director. In the first story, two beautiful young lovers are unable to consummate their passion because the young man prefers impossible perfection. In the second story, a woman tells her stalker that she murdered her father. In the third story, a man makes an effort to appease both his wife and his mistress. In the fourth story, a young man is infatuated with a woman who is soon to enter a convent.
The screenplay was adapted from short stories in Antonioni's book, The Bowling Alley on the Tiber. Antonioni, who was 83 at the time of the film's production, had a stroke that left him severely incapacitated. The film was completed with help from Wim Wenders, who wrote its prologue and epilogue and worked on the screenplay.
Beyond the Clouds was filmed in the following locations:
In his review in The New York Times, Stephen Holden wrote, "There are
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