Beyond the Clouds

Beyond the Clouds (Italian: Al di là delle nuvole; French: Par-dela les nuages) is a 1995 Italian-French-German film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and Wim Wenders and starring John Malkovich, Sophie Marceau, Vincent Perez, Irène Jacob, and Jean Reno. Four stories of love and illusion are told from the perspective of a wandering film director. In the first story, two beautiful young lovers are unable to consummate their passion because the young man prefers impossible perfection. In the second story, a woman tells her stalker that she murdered her father. In the third story, a man makes an effort to appease both his wife and his mistress. In the fourth story, a young man is infatuated with a woman who is soon to enter a convent. The...