Best movie of this year hands down!

People are voting emotionally.

hyped garbage

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

My brother had the Head on the Clouds DVD like five years ago. I wasn't into drama movies back then. I put the disc on the player. And i was amazed.I used to watch horror movies all the time. Head on the Clouds was a big change for me. The writing was great and i think it shows the World War 2 very realistic. Charlize Theron is great as Gilda, a character i will always remember.Some scenes really effected me and the end is just so tearful and the last scene is excellent.It's an underrated movie. Mostly because there are lots of unnecessary sex scenes. But it's much more better than a lot of war movies. For the people who wants to see this movie, don't boggle by the IMDb vote or bad reviews just watch it and decide yourself. I think it's excellent and very emotional 8.5/10.

This film has wonderful possibility, but never transfers the scope, romance and moral depth the writers and producers so clearly believe it has to the audience. Although it spans more than a decade, the film shows us no metamorphosis in the characters: even Theron's Gilda is still the same hedonist, Townsend's Guy remains a love-struck, quiet and principled student and Mia -- well, her fate arrives halfway through the film, so such an assertion may be cheating -- but she's still the foil for both of them (and yet, such a straightforward mixture of both characters). Despite the occasionally wooden acting, (mostly) gratuitous sex and clichéd plot twists, this lack of character is precisely what makes the film self-defeating. There are some lovely touches: the inclusion of the Spanish civil war in the plot, when to modern audiences it is overshadowed by WWII, the treatment of Gilda by the ordinary French civilians and particularly the ending, but the dialogue and the actions of Gilda and occasionally Guy just subvert every positive. This is especially prevalent as the over-long film draws to a close. I note that several previous reviews mention the ending: it is obvious that the writers wanted to show the darker side of the "liberation" and how this turned those who actively hated the occupation against almost everyone else, but the mechanism of having Gilda - a Resistance agent well known to SIS/MI5 - executed doesn't work - it's one coincidence too many. The final "problem" with the film turns out to be its one redeeming feature: Thomas Kretschmann. He quietly munches up all available scenery, as the saying goes, in every second he's even slightly in view of the camera. This wonderfully understated acting (see other reviews for details), as well as the most interesting and complex character by far, simply outshines the leads. It made me highly frustrated that Gilda didn't just ignore the drippy idealist and run off to Germany with the Hauptsturmfuhrer/Major. That refusal really underscores that she doesn't change at all: patriotism is fun and exciting only when she is in minimal danger, ultimately just another rush in her Epicurean life. In summary, just fast-forward until Guy arrives in Paris. The director finally wakes up and uses clever camera-work and more-than-decent actors. Hopefully you will too.

(Spoiler) Apparently this is a Theron, movie I missed, and with Penélope Cruz at that, shame on me. I'm glade I caught it. Although by the number of ratings I wasn't alone, but many didn't like it quite as much as I did. Do I love them both so much that I was blind; Gilda was to a T to me? I liked it ?? Not for the romance? I don’t like romance that much. Nor for the flesh? She is beautiful though. Maybe just for the war movie? No ?? OK, maybe it’s the dirty little secret of the resistance bothered people? Too often we killed our best resistance people with instant street justice. That’s what you get for being good at what you do, don't blame the French. Or then maybe the director’s cynicism bothered other people too, you can be sad without being cynical. I do like some cynical symbolism though, “The world turned upside down”, from Spain to Iraq. What do you think? Oh well, I’ll just put this as one of Charlize Theron’s better movies and forget why. It was just a more than good romantic war-spy movie, and as war often does, it ends sad, but why not just leave it at that? Maybe someday I'll change it to a 9, or maybe a 7?

While this is certainly not my favorite movie. I loved that it was set in France and England (also has Spain too)in the 1930ish through 40's. The clothes are worth seeing this movie alone. Charlize Theron is without a doubt one of the top five most beautiful working actresses. It is impossible not to look at her. She plays the rich heiress Gilda Besse who has captured the heart of Guy( Stuart Townsend). She adds three to her company with the Spanish nurse in training Mia (Penelope Cruz). Gilda meets Mia while she is aspiring to be a photographer and Mia is her lovely model.Gilda is a complex woman who is torn from these two people who she loves most in the world due to the war. She is a wealthy woman who keeps up her wealthy lifestyle by taking comfort in a German officers company. Is she really a Nazi? Charlize was perfect for this role she looked incredible and walked like a stylish wealthy beauty. It must be said for however vain or cold Gilda seems she really does love Guy and Mia. Guy, who is somewhat telling the story is a little lost to me. He clearly loves Gilda and is an idealistic man. The actor who portrayed him is Stuart Townsend and I have not seen any of his other works. All I know is that he is apparently Charlize's real life boyfriend. He played his part well.Mia is played by Penelope Cruz. It is a shame Cruz cannot quite act as well in English as she can in Spanish. She is a terrific actress in her Spanish films, but just flat out stinks in any Hollywood production she has been in. Her accent is distracting, but in this film she is Spanish and therefore it is authentic. She is certainly pretty and is a lovely darker counterpart to the blonde Charlize.This is a film that is not quite terrific, but again it is visually pretty and the whole menage a trois between the three main characters is touching.