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Head in the clouds - Charlize Theron, Penelope Cruz, Stuart Townsend, John Duigan

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Three lives. One destiny.

A lavish, sweeping romance, set in the tumultuous era of World War II, Head in the clouds is a classic cinematic love story in the grand Hollywood style. Sumptuous period details provide the backdrop for an unlikely love affair between an earnest working-class boy and a spoiled, tempestuous heiress.

When bookish Guy Malyon (Stuart Townsend) meets the wealthy and beautiful Gilda Bessé (Charlize Theron), he is swept up in her whirling and decadent lifestyle of lavish parties and wildly outlandish friends. He follows her to Paris where he moves in with Gilda and her beloved Mia (Penélope Cruz), a cabaret dancer who is studying to be a nurse. Their idyllic lives are shattered when current events become too dire to ignore and Guy and Mia leave Paris for the Spanish Civil War. Guy returns when the war comes to Paris, only to discover a terrible revelation involving Gilda… a revelation that not only threatens her life, but could tear them apart forever.

Head in the clouds is not only a breathtakingly gorgeous film, it is also a powerful meditation on love and beauty, duty and free will - and dares us to ask if it's better to live for pleasure or die for love.