movie poster for HEAD IN THE CLOUDS

Flicks ID

12414

Cert

12

Running time

116 mins

Country

Language

Format

DVD

HEAD IN THE CLOUDS (2005)

JOHN DUIGAN

Plot

Gilda is a woman devoted to the pursuit of pleasure, there is no place she is unprepared to journey, no idea she is unprepared to try. Into this hedonistic world comes Guy and Mia and a passionate ménage a trios develops between them. Unlike Gilda however, Guy and Mia are driven by more than just their own pleasure and as the Spanish civil war breaks out both leave Paris for the battle fields of Spain. Six years later, and with the war in Europe almost at an end, Guy returns to still occupied France as an Allied spy, and discovers to his dismay that Gilda has aligned herself with the Germans. Head In The Clouds is a lush period romantic adventure, sultry, dramatic, but a bit too 21st century slick and unconvincing to raise its self above anything more than a couple of hours of escapism.