Product: Head in the Clouds (2004)
Rating: 3.0
Paris, the 1930's & a menage a' trios.
Guy (Stuart Townshead) loves Mia (Penelope Cruz) & Gilda(Charlize Theron). They love him. They also love each other & they all live together. Gilda is also rich.Sweet.That however, does not a movie make.Guy & Mia are working class with political conscience. Witnessing the Spanish Civil War in newsreels they are determined to participate, to Gilda's dismay. She sees their perfect life disintegrating. She is rich, spoiled & in denial as the world around her is changing. She cuts off all contact with the two people she loves most as they leave for Spain.The war is a life changing experience for Guy & a life ending one for Mia as she dies heroically in defense of her homeland.The story then picks up mid World War II. Guy, now with British military intelligence parachutes into occupied France to help the free French resistance. He of course hooks up with Gilda. She apparently is a collaborator, dating German officers. She is despised by all her neighbors & friends. But she too has changed.This movie has the raw material for an epic but falls short. When you have eye candy like Cruz & Theron it's hard to be taken seriously which is too bad. They both give fine performances. It is a bit long on exposition: how Gilda met Guy, a student at Cambridge & Mia's back story. It's a well traveled gen're: love lost, war, love found again. It is a war movie, however & worth a look.