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Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Alejandra Flores, Angélica Aragón

After returning home from the war, a young GI has a chance encounter with the beautiful daughter of a wealthy vineyard owner and agrees to pose as her husband to help her face her domineering father. ...( read more  read more... )When their passions for each other are ignited amidst the magical sensuality of the harvest ritual, they unexpectedly find themselves embarking on a romantic adventure as they overcome all odds to be together.

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PG-13, 1 hr. 42 min.

Directed by: Alfonso Arau

Release Date: August 11, 1995

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DVD Release Date: January 9, 2001

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  • groaningbitch
    April 23, 2009
    groaningbitch
    1995 "a walk in the clouds" is a remake of 1942 italian movie "four steps in the clouds" which is about a henpacked chocolate-seller's temporal acquisition of love from a woman who needs his help to pretend as her husband to disguise her illicit pregnancy by another man. the orig...( read more)inal story ends tragically with the man back to the shrewish wife as well as the emptiness of his trapped miserable existence. his mere solace would be his upcoming son whom he could fantasize as the crystallization with the one woman he truly loves. BUT the american version gives another kind of optimistic tone blended with overflown romanticism to render mexico as the redeeming heaven for the wounded american man broken by wwii just like the stereotyped mexican dreams for americans who fancy to escape into another primitive land in oblivion of industrialized trivia within various american pop cultures.

    apparently "a walk in the clouds" is highly idealized by re-carnating the man as honorable war time hero who condescends to rescue the troubled mexican woman from the moral condemnation of her prestiged family. the man also has no past due to his orphanage, so he could freely abandon his american heritage to surrender over the allure of mexican vineyard except his marriage during the typical wartime redenzvous (that sort of date on saturday, married on sunday wedlock)..thus the audience could identify with the man's moral stance. later his materialistic wife even cheats on him so the man's qualified licitly to gallope toward the mexican fairy who could enliven his soul among the clouds.

    the cinematography feels like a dreamy commercial to lure you into a one or two-week vacation treat in mexican countryside, and the music is idyllically composed (it even won an oscar), and the people under the circumstance are all pleasant endearing grandma/grandpa type to draw an cozy picture of home. keanu reeves delivers every line most/every woman likes to hear in certain conditions of crises, he sings downstairs with a band to swoon you, and he's pure, handsome and gallant despite at most of time he's wooden and slow. it's a picture you don't have to think but dream. perfect merchandize for the consumption of fantasies.

    as i reminiscence, i watched this movie at 13 when every teenage girl around that age went into a feverish craze for it. i used to enjoy that sort of drama when i didn't need to think or frown, but as i gaze my life in reality, i doubt, disbelieve and deny by myself. now i look upon this movie, i automatically examine its ideology at once without a bit of girlish delight i used to blindly feel. but still i wouldn't defame it just becuz my life ain't so glamorous but amazed by how time has roughend me with a degree of detached rationality which sustains me thru the odds. i cannot help but wonder: maybe movie itself is an apparatus to narcotize you into a mode of inner utopia of self-indulgence, whether your aim is at mushy romances or gritty testicle-driven violences or sultry erotica, we shall always seek something to entertain oursevles by any age. i suppose a good movie makes you think; the rest just drives you to buy. what you've gotta learn is to transcend such manipulation to stand on your own to probe.

    "a walk in the clouds" is filled with flat characters but at least they're persuasive stereotypes who look and behave right in their parts under picturesque sceneries. by gazing keanu in fedora, i cannot help but envision this movie made in 1940s with gary cooper and dolores del rio in a better script to bare more scopes of human complexities, maybe it would have been a masterpiece if it's directed by fritz lang in a dialogue-driven method like lang's "clash by night" or jean renoir's "toni".
  • thmtsang
    April 6, 2009
    thmtsang
    Keanu plays a guy who has returned from the war and meets a girl who is pregnant and he decides to help her out with her family. Average plot.
  • sononothing
    February 17, 2009
    sononothing
    Let's face it. Keanu Reeves can't act. Don't hide it because he was Neo or Ted. He's what Hitchcock would have called "the stiff". Which brings us to A Walk in the Clouds, a mediocre romance film that contains the largest cast of stereotypical characters ever assembled in a film ...( read more)(excluding Night Patrol). The story is about a man (Reeves) returning from the war to his bride, who expects the world. You know what's going to happen. He goes to sell chocolates where he meets Victoria (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon) who is returning home from college with a surprise- she's pregnant. Hilarity ensues when Reeves' character offers to pose as her husband, then abandon her (why she didn't just tell her family she was abandoned we'll never know). What we get at the home is a collection of regular film characters: the pissed off all the time because his kids are stupid father, the wise old man, and the hot shit son.

    A Walk in the Clouds is dull as hell. Let's face it, I can watch PBS for wine making tips. Anthony Quinn is wasted as the wise gramps who doesn't really give any wise teachings. It's a pathetic film that scores on the fact that the guy from Speed is in a romance (putter, putter). This is sentimental garbage that defies logic at every turn.
  • gatorgirl13
    August 5, 2007
    gatorgirl13
    Loved it. Great storyline.
  • AgentLexi2132
    July 2, 2007
    AgentLexi2132
    A chance encounter with the beautiful daughter of a wealthy vineyard owner and he agrees to pose as her husband to help her face her domineering father. quite good film.
  • totalefreiheit
    November 20, 2009
    totalefreiheit
    Muy buena pelicula. Muy interesante historia. Con un excelente reparto.
  • sonic5
    October 5, 2009
    sonic5
    Such a subtly beautiful movie. It wasn't just about romance but it's about the unexpected things life throws your way. When two people meet and they have a similar thirst for life and find beauty in each other, it's just meant to be. As long they can trust one another to keep the...( read more) other safe. To me, it was also about family, acceptance and belonging. Yeah, I think the movie could have had more depth in some areas but it had its strong points. I found the scenery to be so beautiful too. Oh and some traditions shouldn't be changed they hold such beauty and history. It's great! I loved the little small parts in the movie where they explained their history. Good movie.
  • RachelJezel
    October 3, 2009
    RachelJezel
    *swoons* Keanu, come home soon baby I need you.
  • rdmpaguia
    September 22, 2009
    rdmpaguia
    maganda ang pelikula na ito. Kagabi ko lang napanood!!!
  • varronasisclo
    September 18, 2009
    varronasisclo
    I love the movie. It's well acted and the cinematography is great. Watch it and you will never regret. Magical! It's a visual poetry!!!

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  • sabrinasivananda
    March 29, 2007
    sabrinasivananda
    a fantastic picturization, and a sweet story......
    I jus love watching it....
  • mhbaby22688
    February 21, 2007
    mhbaby22688
    it been so long with out seeing this movie ...............I was * when I first saw it ............ sence than I have being looking for it oh well I find it some how >> but still I really love it is so sweet...
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