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Title: A Walk in the Clouds
Year: 1995
Director: Alfonso Arau
Plot: In this atmospheric romantic drama, Keanu Reeves plays Paul Sutton, who has just returned home from a stretch in the Army during World War II. Still reeling from the horrors of war, Paul wants to settle down and start a farm, but his wife Betty (Debra Messing), whom he met and impulsively married shortly before shipping out, has arranged for him to take a job as a salesman peddling chocolates. While taking a sales trip to another town, he befriends a beautiful but distraught young woman, Victoria Aragon (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon). While away at college, Victoria met and fell in love with a young man and soon became pregnant; however, when her boyfriend discovered she was expecting, he abandoned her. She returns home full of shame and fearful of her father's reaction. But Paul gets an idea -- he'll pose as her husband and leave after a day or two, so when she's left alone with the child, the disgrace will be on him, not her. Victoria agrees, and Paul joins Victoria as she arrives at her family's estate in the California wine country. Most of the Aragon family take to Paul readily enough, especially Grandfather Don Pedro (Anthony Quinn), but Victoria's father, Alberto (Giancarlo Giannini), senses something amiss between the young couple. A Walk In The Clouds was the first American film from director Alfonso Arau, who previously made the international hit Like Water For Chocolate. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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]]>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:52:43 GMTA Walk in the Clouds1995Alfonso ArauIn this atmospheric romantic drama, <a href="/players/P____59355/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Keanu Reeves</a> plays Paul Sutton, who has just returned home from a stretch in the Army during World War II. Still reeling from the horrors of war, Paul wants to settle down and start a farm, but his wife Betty (<a href="/players/P___224925/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Debra Messing</a>), whom he met and impulsively married shortly before shipping out, has arranged for him to take a job as a salesman peddling chocolates. While taking a sales trip to another town, he befriends a beautiful but distraught young woman, Victoria Aragon (<a href="/players/P___151738/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Aitana Sanchez-Gijon</a>). While away at college, Victoria met and fell in love with a young man and soon became pregnant; however, when her boyfriend discovered she was expecting, he abandoned her. She returns home full of shame and fearful of her father's reaction. But Paul gets an idea -- he'll pose as her husband and leave after a day or two, so when she's left alone with the child, the disgrace will be on him, not her. Victoria agrees, and Paul joins Victoria as she arrives at her family's estate in the California wine country. Most of the Aragon family take to Paul readily enough, especially Grandfather Don Pedro (<a href="/players/P___107297/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Anthony Quinn</a>), but Victoria's father, Alberto (<a href="/players/P____91430/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Giancarlo Giannini</a>), senses something amiss between the young couple. A Walk In The Clouds was the first American film from director <a href="/players/P____79847/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Alfonso Arau</a>, who previously made the international hit <a href=/films/20383/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Like Water For Chocolate</a>. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide17Tag Target (>10)1712http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/u42285n7hxz.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/A_Walk_in_the_Clouds/92287/default.aspxFilm Spout Post: is it tough to go through the clouds when you love? http://www.spout.com/blogs/forrest_gump/archive/2007/2/14/5434.aspx

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Body: a walk in the clouds its tough to go through the clouds when you love..its tough to fight them..face them..but at the end when it results into seeing the peeping sun...everything seems so natural and obvious..a walk in the clouds is a excellent love story where the protogonist experienced the clouds of love The film begins as Paul returns home from World War II to find that he has nothing in common with his young cutie-pie wife Betty (Debra Messing), whom he impulsively married before shipping overseas. Haunted by wartime nightmares laced with personal angst, Paul just wants to pursue the American dream — home and hearth, children and a dog, etc. When he hits the road to find himself he instead finds Victoria Aragon (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon), a college student on her way home to "The Clouds," a nickname for the family winery. She looks forward to seeing her supportive mother and grandparents, but is worried about facing her bombastic, intolerant father (Giancarlo Giannini), as she is pregnant and unmarried. So, Paul offers to be her husband for a day or two, a ploy that is, of course, doomed to failure. And there's no doubt from their first meeting that Paul and Victoria will gradually fall in love.Arau fills the screen with vivid colors and heavenly images, using the harvesting of grapes as a metaphor. (A grape-stomping sequence is particularly sensuous.) And there are a number of individual moments that are quite entrancing (enhanced by Maurice Jarre's lush music), despite the feeling that it's all a bit empty.In the family scenes, it is Anthony Quinn as the grandfather who steals the show with a hilarious and touching performance as the sage old voice of dubious wisdom.As Don Pedro Aragon, he is full of the kind of good advice that urges the enjoyment of sexual favors and large amounts of strong alcohol. When Don Pedro gets Paul drunk, you can see Quinn pushing Reeves to loosen up, which Reeves actually starts to do. From this scene one can detect signs of acting potential beneath Reeves' usual mono-emotionality. Everyone else in the cast is equally lively, however, with Sanchez-Gijon managing to combine an unlikely sense of both innocence and sensuousness, while Giannini is charmingly hammy. Reeves is a little too quiet and polite as an actor to give much of a sense of the struggle between his growing passion and the chivalry that will not allow him to act on it. Arau tries to mix good old American practicality (this is his first English language movie) and the magical realism that tempered a tendency toward gravity in "Like Water for Chocolate." In an otherwise American movie, the magic seems awfully hokey. at the end its a wonderful film...for lovers and for people who loves their family..
]]>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:19:00 GMTforrest_gumpforrest_gump Blog2/14/2007 5:19:00 AMa walk in the clouds its tough to go through the clouds when you love..its tough to fight them..face them..but at the end when it results into seeing the peeping sun...everything seems so natural and obvious..a walk in the clouds is a excellent love story where the protogonist experienced the clouds of love The film begins as Paul returns home from World War II to find that he has nothing in common with his young cutie-pie wife Betty (Debra Messing), whom he impulsively married before shipping overseas. Haunted by wartime nightmares laced with personal angst, Paul just wants to pursue the American dream — home and hearth, children and a dog, etc. When he hits the road to find himself he instead finds Victoria Aragon (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon), a college student on her way home to "The Clouds," a nickname for the family winery. She looks forward to seeing her supportive mother and grandparents, but is worried about facing her bombastic, intolerant father (Giancarlo Giannini), as she is pregnant and unmarried. So, Paul offers to be her husband for a day or two, a ploy that is, of course, doomed to failure. And there's no doubt from their first meeting that Paul and Victoria will gradually fall in love.Arau fills the screen with vivid colors and heavenly images, using the harvesting of grapes as a metaphor. (A grape-stomping sequence is particularly sensuous.) And there are a number of individual moments that are quite entrancing (enhanced by Maurice Jarre's lush music), despite the feeling that it's all a bit empty.In the family scenes, it is Anthony Quinn as the grandfather who steals the show with a hilarious and touching performance as the sage old voice of dubious wisdom.As Don Pedro Aragon, he is full of the kind of good advice that urges the enjoyment of sexual favors and large amounts of strong alcohol. When Don Pedro gets Paul drunk, you can see Quinn pushing Reeves to loosen up, which Reeves actually starts to do. From this scene one can detect signs of acting potential beneath Reeves' usual mono-emotionality. Everyone else in the cast is equally lively, however, with Sanchez-Gijon managing to combine an unlikely sense of both innocence and sensuousness, while Giannini is charmingly hammy. Reeves is a little too quiet and polite as an actor to give much of a sense of the struggle between his growing passion and the chivalry that will not allow him to act on it. Arau tries to mix good old American practicality (this is his first English language movie) and the magical realism that tempered a tendency toward gravity in "Like Water for Chocolate." In an otherwise American movie, the magic seems awfully hokey. at the end its a wonderful film...for lovers and for people who loves their family.. Spout Tag:love http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/love/MemberTagFilms.aspxlove
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