The Cloud (1998 film)
1998 drama film
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The Cloud (Spanish: La nube, French: Le Nuage), also known as Clouds, is a 1998 French-Argentine drama film co-written and directed by Fernando Solanas. It was entered into the main competition at the 55th Venice International Film Festival.
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Eduardo Pavlovsky
Laura Novoa
Christophe Malavoy
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| Directed by | Fernando Solanas |
| Screenplay by | Fernando Solanas Eduardo Pavlovsky |
| Starring | Eduardo Pavlovsky Laura Novoa Christophe Malavoy |
| Cinematography | Juan Diego Solanas |
| Edited by | Luis César D'Angiolillo |
| Music by | Gerardo Gandini |
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| Language | Spanish |
Plot
Cast
- Eduardo Pavlovsky as Max
- Laura Novoa as Paula
- Franklin Caicedo as Enrique
- Angela Correa as Fulo
- Favio Posca as Tito
- Christophe Malavoy as Cholo
- Bernard Le Coq as Eduardo
- Luis Cardei as Lucas
- Leonor Manso as Sonia
- Cristina Banegas as Neighbour
- Horacio Peña as Notary
Production
The film got inspiration from the Eduardo Pavlovsky's stage play Rojos globos rojos.[1]
Release
The film entered the main competition at the 55th edition of the Venice Film Festival, in which it won the Golden Osella for Best Score.[2]
Reception
Variety's critic David Stratton called the film "ambitious, visually impressive", "at times, maddeningly obscure", but "certainly a handsome production".[3] Time Out described it as "strong on atmospherics, but skimpy on plot".[4] Stuart Klawans from The Nation referred to it as "wryly expressionistic" and "a film that's close to my heart".[5]
Mariuccia Ciotta from il manifesto praised the film, describing it as a "dark tale that expresses less the anger of transformation than a feeling of inexorable extinction, an inner ending that arrives even before the final curtain."[1] The Argentine cultural magazine Criterio noted: "There are things that today are only said in Solanas' films [...] resist, denounce, keep working despite the lies and the siren songs."[6]
