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Synopsis: HEAD IN THE CLOUDS is a sweeping romantic drama set in 1930's England, Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic lifestyle and her burgeoning career as a photographer. But Guy and Mia feel impelled to join the fight against fascism, and the three friends are separated - seemingly forever.
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Director(s): John Duigan
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  6 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
40
Rotten Tomatoes:
16%
R
Year:
2004
132 min
$170,463
Website
299 Views


I'm wearing my birthday suit in your honour.

I thought for certain I would hear

that Gilda and Julian had broken up...

but nothing seemed

to have changed between them.

A few weeks passed...

and just when I'd resigned myself

to never being with her again...

something unexpected happened.

The divorce was at least 12 years ago.

Yeah, she must be devastated.

Can I join?

That's five shillings annual membership fee.

I read about your mother.

It must have been awful.

She was a stranger to me, really.

But how have you been?

Practicing my billiards.

I wanted to see you

to tell you that I'm leaving England.

Why?

The wanderlust has got me. I want to travel.

Where will you go?

I loved the Arabian Nights

when I was younger.

Maybe I'll start there.

Would you like a traveling companion?

You have to finish your degree.

Does Julian know?

I'll leave him a nice letter.

You're the one friend from this chapter

I'd like to keep.

Three weeks later, Gilda left England.

And so began

our one- sided correspondence.

For she was never in one place long enough

for my letters to catch up with her.

After a year, she stopped writing.

By the time I graduated and began teaching

in the East End of London...

I'd managed to finally put her behind me.

Civil war had broken out in Spain...

and I was campaigning

for the Republican side...

in its increasingly desperate fight

against the Fascists.

Tiberius is in a bad mood!

Where are those slaves?

We'll see how brave you are

in the Coliseum.

Take away their drinking water.

I hadn't had a letter from her

for almost a year.

But Gilda always

had an uncanny sense of timing.

She was back in Paris...

telling me a whole new chapter of her life

was beginning...

and demanding I visit her.

Once more, nothing else in the world

existed for me.

Miss Bess?

Bonjour.

I'm looking for Miss Bess.

Guy! You came! And so soon!

Well, you finally sent me an address.

Look at you. Suddenly you're a man.

I even shave now.

How long can you stay?

Only till tomorrow. I have to work.

That's ridiculous.

You have to stay for at least a month.

We'd better get ready for tonight.

You're a great bunch of robots!

Don't be late!

You'll be able to see my show.

What sort of show?

You'll see tonight.

I saw you in a film as a slave

in ancient Rome.

Wasn't it ludicrous?

How did you get the part?

I met an American cameraman

and went back to Hollywood with him.

At first I wanted to be an actress...

but then I got more interested in cameras.

I'd pick his brains in bed every night.

Are you married yet?

Not quite.

Good.

I'm sure you have a menagerie of admirers.

So what do you do after work?

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John Duigan

John Duigan (born 19 June 1949) is an Australian film director. He is mostly known for his two autobiographical films The Year My Voice Broke and Flirting, and the 1994 film Sirens, which starred Hugh Grant. more…

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