Head in the Clouds
Head in the Clouds is a 2004 Canadian-British war drama film written and directed by John Duigan. The original screenplay focuses on the choices young lovers must make as they find themselves surrounded by increasing political unrest in late-1930s Europe. The film was a critical and box office failure.
Plot
In Paris in the year 1924, a young 14-year-old Gilda Bessé, the daughter of a French aristocrat and an emotionally unstable American mother, is told by a fortune teller that the life line on her palm does not extend past the age of 34. Years later, on a rainy night in 1933, Gilda stumbles into the room of Guy Malyon, an Irishman who is a first-year scholarship student at Cambridge University. She has had a lover's quarrel with one of the dons, and rather than turn her out into the storm, Guy gallantly allows her to spend the night. Later, they become lovers, but the two are separated when Gilda's mother dies and she opts to leave England. A few years later, Guy sees her as an extra in a Hollywood film, and shortly after he coincidentally receives a letter from her inviting him to visit her in Paris, where she is working as a photographer.
Cast
- Amy Sloan
- Arthur Holden
- Cécile Cassel
- Charles Lelaure
- Charlize Theron
- David La Haye
- Élisa Sergent
- Élizabeth Chouvalidzé
- Elizabeth Whitmere
- Frankie Pain
- Gabriel Hogan
- Jan Oliver Schroeder
- Karine Vanasse
- Paul-Antoine Taillefer
- Penélope Cruz
- Rachelle Lefevre
- Sophie Desmarais
- Stéphanie Pasterkamp
- Steven Berkoff
- Stuart Townsend
- Thomas Kretschmann
- Vincent Leclerc