Days and Clouds

Days and Clouds ( Original title: Giorni e nuvole ) is a film by Silvio Soldini from the year 2007.

Action

Elsa and Michele are a good pair of situated mid-40s daughter Alice has left the beautiful apartment with stunning views over Genoa and already operates a restaurant with a friend.

Elsa doctorate in art history. Michele surprises her with a party, to which he has invited all friends. The next day he has to confess to her that he has already lost his job for weeks. His partner and a new CEO have allied themselves against him and threw him out of the company he co-founded.

Hoping to get a new job soon, Michele tries to keep up appearances and so they maintain their accustomed standard of living at. But the financial situation is more threatening and they need the apartment and also their small sailing yacht for sale. Your new home is now a small apartment in a new neighborhood on the outskirts of town.

Elsa needs the restoration of frescoes in the Palazzo (which they could volunteer ) Reset, because it assumes a job in a call center and another as a nightly backup secretary. Michele tries to be a Vespa courier and renovated with two former employees of his apartments in his neighborhood. When the two but again get a regular job, he must go on alone what he does not succeed. Michele hedgehog t be a more and more. Everything he starts going wrong. Depression determine its day and so it comes to a violent quarrel with Elsa. He moves in with his daughter. The relationship seems to break. But then feel Elsa and Michele, that their love for each other stronger. The future is not easy, but there will be a future for them.

Awards

David di Donatello 2008: Best Actress - Margherita Buy and Best Supporting Actress - Alba Rohrwacher

Nastro d' Argento 2008: Best Actress - Margherita Buy

Reviews

" Soldini waived clichés, does not provide billing angry with the system, but records the personal consequences of social status and job loss. The main roles convince Margherita Buy and Antonio Albanese, who draw an honest portrait of two people more advisable to stumble. "

"In his drama" Days and Clouds " Silvio Soldini goes into the question of what the unexpected means slipping into unemployment for a middle class family. Empathetic, he shows how the social decline not only burdened individuals and their nerves can be blank, but also exposes the relationships within the family of one ordeal. "

" Silvio Soldini's new, wonderful film convinces particularly through its Geerdetheit. Formally known as dramaturgical always reduced to the essentials, making days and clouds actually nothing more than an age-old, already a thousand times told story, namely to vary those of the irrevocable power of love. However, on extremely charming way. "

" There is little wrong with this film, but to admire little. You can Soldini's film like for what he does not, for his renunciation of open manipulative emotional cinema, on social romanticism and proletarians kitsch. Fewer but for what he does instead. Days and Clouds is missing in the decisive moments of consistency and courage. "

Italy 2007 in film Screenplay Film score Ramiro Civita
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