A Walk in the Clouds (1995)

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• Nicki M

  
  Quite a nice romantic little story but not my usual type. Sadly, I found it more interesting in the beginning, when he went home to his shallow wife - that is a story that may have held my interest a little more! I am sure this is a movie most people would enjoy. Not a favorite for… More
  Quite a nice romantic little story but not my usual type. Sadly, I found it more interesting in the beginning, when he went home to his shallow wife - that is a story that may have held my interest a little more! I am sure this is a movie most people would enjoy. Not a favorite for me, and not a rewatch, but glad I saw it once.

• Red L

  
  A syrupy movie - about love and honour. Actually I didn't mind Keanu's acting, but the ending of the movie - with the fire and the vine is pure crap.

• Veronique K

  
  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… More
  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 original 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-incarnating 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".

• Dean M

  
  This drama film in one word, "beautiful." Keanu Reeves and the rest of the cast make this film enjoyable. The acting is superb and the story is quite good. The ending is predictable. So is eating, sleeping, working and making love. Is that any reason not to watch a movie?… More
  This drama film in one word, "beautiful." Keanu Reeves and the rest of the cast make this film enjoyable. The acting is superb and the story is quite good. The ending is predictable. So is eating, sleeping, working and making love. Is that any reason not to watch a movie? Anthony Quinn turns in a stellar performance as the eccentric grandfather that really isn't quite as odd as he'd like everyone to believe he is, spots Reeves for what he really is early in the story, and pretty much drives him to face what should be his destiny - but lets him think that he's making up his own mind.

• Candy R

  
  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.

• Chris G

  
  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… More
  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 (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.

• Fernando Rafael Q

  
  An OK film that doesn't offer anything much, besides stunning visuals and a great performance by the late Anthony Quinn. As we all know, Keanu Reeves can't act, and all the other actors, excluding Quinn, were very forgettable. The direction could've been better,… More
  An OK film that doesn't offer anything much, besides stunning visuals and a great performance by the late Anthony Quinn. As we all know, Keanu Reeves can't act, and all the other actors, excluding Quinn, were very forgettable. The direction could've been better, especially in those awful war scenes. Overall, A WALK IN THE CLOUDS is a sappy but entertaining film. Kudos to one of my favorite cinematographers, Emmanuel "El Chivo" Lubezki for achieving the absolutely beautiful, dream-like look for this film.

• Bobby H

  
  This movie is definatly worth watching. It's obviously for the hopeless-romantic, and a little on the typical predictable side... but it's good. The actors are awesome, the storyline is a great idea, and it keeps you interested all the way through. What seems like a simple… More
  This movie is definatly worth watching. It's obviously for the hopeless-romantic, and a little on the typical predictable side... but it's good. The actors are awesome, the storyline is a great idea, and it keeps you interested all the way through. What seems like a simple movie, will turn out to be a real classic for those who watch it.

• Rachel F

  
  Loved it. Great storyline.

• jay n

  
  beautiful looking movie with one of keanu's best performances.

• danny d

  
  slow and chick flicky but a decent story

• Leigh R

  
  Beautiful and sweet.

• Emily A

  
  I know this movie is schmaltzy but I liked it anyway. The whole culture clash thing was fun to watch, as was the vineyard backdrop. And while this movie descended into unfathomable depths of corniness that left my cousin and I on the floor on stitches, it's all around kinda nice.

• Deb S

  
  This is a movie about a man Paul Sutton (Keanu Reeves) who meets Victoria, the daughter of a wealthy vineyard owner. Victoria is on her way home and is terrified of what her conservative father will do when he learns she is not married and pregnant. Paul impulsively offers to help her… More
  This is a movie about a man Paul Sutton (Keanu Reeves) who meets Victoria, the daughter of a wealthy vineyard owner. Victoria is on her way home and is terrified of what her conservative father will do when he learns she is not married and pregnant. Paul impulsively offers to help her by posing as her husband for one night, unaware that doing so will change both of their lives forever. You really feel for the girl, and the predicament she's gotten into. While it's admirable of Paul to want to help her out, but you know what's going to happen!

• matt s

  
  My sister loves this flick.

• Leo L

  
  Good movie.

• Janice :

  
  Keanu Reeves was made for this role! I'm sure he was born and when his parents saw him they were like "He's going to be chosen for A walk in the clouds". I mean come on, the dude's as dreamy as Cumulo Nimbus'! The reason most people have never heard of… More
  Keanu Reeves was made for this role! I'm sure he was born and when his parents saw him they were like "He's going to be chosen for A walk in the clouds". I mean come on, the dude's as dreamy as Cumulo Nimbus'! The reason most people have never heard of this romance is probably because there is no sex (oh surprise surprise!). After all, as i like to point out: "Sex sells". And oh boy, this could've been a block-buster if only both actors stripped down and showed us what passion really is. If this isn't a love story, i wonder what this is. Furtive glances and stolen kisses comprise most of this Ro-drama which also has some comedic scenes. The father reminds me of Robert De niro in Meet the parents, and you know, you have the usual mother who likes the guy, but the father doesn't approve. Blablahblah. It's a story as old as Adam and Eve. Forget The notebook (way too sappy) and The prince and me (too unrealistic), and rent this! It's a nice waste of 1h30mins of your life - serious! Only deception: no 40s music! :(

• Anthony V

  
  I don't remember much about this movie, which isn't a good sign.

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