With its long shots and weighty silences, the movie is a rewarding meditation on the pleasures and mysteries of observing, by a great director.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 18, 2021

Though not vintage Antonioni, this later work (supervised by Wim Wenders), a meditation on eros, love, and desire, features some of the most beautiful actresses working today: Fanny Ardant, Irene Jacob, and Sophie Marceau.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 31, 2007

Antonioni seems to be using his absence from the scene as an opportunity to restate his vision, perhaps having a new generation of filmgoers in mind.

Full Review | Mar 1, 2007

One of Fanny Ardant's lines sums up the rest of Beyond the Clouds: 'Everything seems ridiculous.'

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 29, 2006

Delightful recent film showing Antonioni's visual style.

Full Review | Aug 22, 2006

It makes for entrancing cinema.

Full Review | Feb 9, 2006

We find we're lucky enough if we can just get one story out of this two-hour ordeal, which wanders aimlessly in art-house hell as often as it enchants.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 13, 2005

A bit dreamy, but in the way that leads to a doze.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 10, 2003

Everybody likes a pretty face, but when it comes right down to the nitty-gritty, Beyond the Clouds lacks substance.

Full Review | Original Score: 65/100 | Nov 19, 2002

See this film. It may be Antonioni's last.

Full Review | Nov 19, 2002

Musing on the power of inner thought and imagination, the film is far from deep, but instead feels superficial and one-dimensional.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 19, 2002

There are moments of such astounding visual power in Michelangelo Antonioni's film Beyond the Clouds that you are all but transported through the screen to a place where the physical and emotional weather fuse into a palpable sadness.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 19, 2002

There are a lot of beautiful things in Beyond the Clouds: the style, the settings, the bodies of young men and women-many of them beautiful in the vaguely blank way that models are.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 19, 2002

Beyond the Clouds is a magnificent coda to a career spent excavating images and probing the silences that exist between people.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 19, 2002

While famous for crafting films about incommunicability and alienation, Antonioni here delivers one that simply communicates nothing at all.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Aug 30, 2002

Antonioni's dreamy, pretentious fickle-finger-of-fate mini-tales struggle to wrestle with love and desire, but truck in adolescent ideas and delight in nothing so much as undressing their many young actresses.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A slightly erotic and decidedly offbeat movie, Beyond the Clouds has a strong attraction that is hard to put into words. A frustrating film, it is simultaneously bizarrely fascinating and soporifically unsatisfying.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

None of these stories, except the first, incises deeply, but all of them are immersed in a sense of place, riche but not nouveau riche, no ostentation. Some old Antonioni elements and some new ones are used.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The moments that work in this movie (and there are many) remind us that most other films of today still have a long way to go.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

A wasted opportunity.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000