Product: Head in the Clouds (2004)
Rating: 3.0
Beautifully filmed yet Passionelss
I would actually give this film 3.5 stars. It has a great start, a great cast, beautiful cinematography but it is passionless. This is a story about three young lovers who live life at its best when there is war all around. When two of them decide to take the Spanish Civil War seriously and volunteer themselves, one refuses to change her exuberant lifestyle despite what's going on around her.The story is great and the characters are convincing yet there is still the passion missing among all three characters. They are supposed to be bound by their zest for life. And there is a lot of talk about how much they love each other. Yet, I expected more intimate moments between Stuart Townsend's character and Charlize Theron's character. There was more passion between Diego and Frida in Salma Hayek's film about Frida Kahlo that took place around the same timeframe.The movie has great potential and definitely worth a watch, but Theron does not quite deliver the oscar winning performace here as she did with "Monster". Had the film left out Penelope Cruz, I think this could have been a better film.