The Cloud (Spanish: La nube, French: Le Nuage), also known as Clouds, is a 1998 French-Argentine drama film co-written and directed by Fernando Solanas. It was entered into the main competition at the 55th Venice International Film Festival.
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Cast
Eduardo Pavlovsky as Max
Laura Novoa as Paula
Franklin Caicedo as Enrique
Angela Correa as Fulo
Favio Posca as Tito
Christophe Malavoy as Cholo
Bernard Le Coq as Eduardo
Luis Cardei as Lucas
Leonor Manso as Sonia
Cristina Banegas as Neighbour
Horacio Peña as Notary
Production
The film got inspiration from the Eduardo Pavlovsky's stage play Rojos globos rojos.
Release
The film entered the main competition at the 55th edition of the Venice Film Festival, in which it won the Golden Osella for Best Score.
Reception
Variety's critic David Stratton called the film "ambitious, visually impressive", "at times, maddeningly obscure", but "certainly a handsome production". Time Out described it as "strong on atmospherics, but skimpy on plot". Stuart Klawans from The Nation referred to it as "wryly expressionistic" and "a film that's close to my heart".
Mariuccia Ciotta from il manifesto praised the film, describing it as a "dark tale that expresses less the anger of transformation than a feeling of inexorable extinction, an inner ending that arrives even before the final curtain." The Argentine cultural magazine Criterio noted: "There are things that today are only said in Solanas' films [...] resist, denounce, keep working despite the lies and the siren songs."