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That was an excellent one.

Just perfect...

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

I love this movie mostly because of two scenes. This might be a spoiler, so here is my fair warning. One scene is where Guy thirstily lifts Gilda's skirt to give her oral sex. Gosh that was one of the best sex scenes I ever seen in a movie. Totally turned me on. The other scene was where Gilda taught that sado-masochistic man, who hurt her friend, a harsh lesson, by administering him a taste of his own medicine. That scene kind of turned me on also. I didn't really like the ending because I feel like whoever wrote this movie punished Gilda for living life to the fullest and making herself happy. That's not right. I loved Gilda's modern lifestyle, and I think she should've gotten a happy ending for having the courage to live for herself.

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.

When I say pretty I don't mean just the actors Charlize (Gilda)Penelope Cruz and Stuart Townsend(Guy). Very nice epic/period piece that starts off post World War 1 and ends in 1945. The costumes, cars, homes, backdrops are gorgeous.I thought the movie was too long. After about 45 minutes, you get the idea that the main character is a spoiled rich hedonist who wants to escape reality. She was a feminist before there were such things.**Spoilerer** You also catch on quickly that everyone loves Gilda, but she is incapable of returning love or loyalty. Or is she? Can there be last minute redemption? In the movies, sure. My biggest problem with this flick is that it has been done before - see the Winds of War for example amongst others. If you've never seen a period piece of the 1930's, this may wow you.

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.