Product: Head in the Clouds (2004)
Rating: 5.0
A Great Movie
Oscar Winner Charlize Theron (Best Actress, 'Monster'), real-life boyfriend Stuart Townsend, and Penelope Cruz star in "Head in the Clouds", a movie few people know about that is actually really good. It really surprised me how good it was, I didn't even think I'd like it. Anyway, Townsend plays Guy, a young student who falls in love with Gilda Besse (Therone) the day she rushes into his college dorm room. Gilda is a free spirit, who drifts from guy to guy and eventually ends up with Guy. After years apart and finally moving in together, along with a studying nurse Mia (Cruz). Mia and Gilda are movie lesbians basically, you've seen versions of them in "Wild Things" and other movies. Eventually, Mia and Guy leave to fight in the Spanish Civil War much to the dismay of Gilda who doesn't believe in war. Mia and Guy leave Gilda behind and she vows to herself never to see them again. One great scene ensues when Guy returns to France to see Gilda, when he spots her on the street they exchange a glance and she walks away. This scene is wonderful and very poetic. One thing this film should not be confused with is a "war movie". It's not a war movie, it's not even kind of a war movie. "Head in the Clouds" uses war as a plot point, but the movie is really a love story. It's like "The Dreamers" and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" in which, war is an overtone to the movie. Charlize Theron is glamorous in this movie, she's really in true movie star mode. Stuart Townsend, who also appeared with Theron in "Trapped", is really good as Guy; the lovestruck soldier who is forced to make a lot of life changing decisions. Cruz is in one of her best performance as Mia. I am truly surprised this movie didn't recieve more publicity and better reviews than it did, because (as I've stated several times now) this is a fantastic movie. Seeing Theron naked was a plus too.GRADE: A-