A deliberately old fashioned romantic drama starring inexpressive actor Keanu Reeves, thrown in with a bunch of emoting Hispanic actors. The resulting film is kind of a crappy mess of a romance.
Keanu is a soldier returning home from World War II who is suffering from PTS syndrome although it's kind of hard to tell with him. He meets up with with Spanish actress Aitana Sánchez-Gijón who is an unmarried, pregnant and is returning to her "colorful" Hispanic family who have a vineyard in the Napa Valley. Keanu pretends to be her husband so she doesn't suffer the wrath of her explosive father played by Italian actor Giancarlo Giannini since there were clearly no Hispanic actors who could play this role. Well anyway Keanu and Sánchez-Gijón fall in love and etc.
A Walk In The Clouds is very pretty to watch, every scene is filmed with a golden tint which only goes to prove that the sepia filter can be overused as a sloppy cliche in a romantic drama. Maurice Jarre also lards it on with his "expressive" film score because when you can't generate real emotions from the actors you supplement it in every other way that you can.
102 minutes.
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