While it got much better towards the end (better acting, image composition and both tonal and chromatic contrast), i can say that Beyond the Clouds made me say this : "i don't like Antonioni". I may be an ignorant, but please give me the benefit of a doubt about this film. The beginning is absurd (as are situations throughout the whole movie). It seems that everybody does more thinking than feeling ("What if i told you i fell in love with you?" to which the reply comes pretty fast "it is like lighting a candle in an already lightened room". Seriously. Would you say that if you were told this? It's not that i don't believe that two complete strangers could fall madly in love, but .. it happens so seldom that they bring proof to the saying "it only happens in movies" or better yet "in Antonioni's movie".
We see character connections we don't need (like the girl from the cinema and the hotel manager looking suspiciously - camera zoom on the face- at the new client) and all in all, the movie is filled with intricacies that aren't necessary, making it like a fully lit Christmas-time shop window, out of which you like everything, but you wouldn't buy it all even if you could.
All thanks on the camera movement - steadycam i suppose, crane, aso aso, but i would like to point out that we don't need to see the DOP's height when filming actors that are shorter/taller than him/her.
As a final conclusion, the stiffness of the dialogs, the slow pacing of the editing, the (deliberate?) "year 1 at film academy" errors like jumping over the ax between the characters or filming the airplane's left wing and presenting it as a subjective image for the character sitting on the right side of the plane seem ridiculous and make me give this movie a 6 out of 10.
We see character connections we don't need (like the girl from the cinema and the hotel manager looking suspiciously - camera zoom on the face- at the new client) and all in all, the movie is filled with intricacies that aren't necessary, making it like a fully lit Christmas-time shop window, out of which you like everything, but you wouldn't buy it all even if you could.
All thanks on the camera movement - steadycam i suppose, crane, aso aso, but i would like to point out that we don't need to see the DOP's height when filming actors that are shorter/taller than him/her.
As a final conclusion, the stiffness of the dialogs, the slow pacing of the editing, the (deliberate?) "year 1 at film academy" errors like jumping over the ax between the characters or filming the airplane's left wing and presenting it as a subjective image for the character sitting on the right side of the plane seem ridiculous and make me give this movie a 6 out of 10.