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Wonderful character development!

Just perfect...

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Absolutely Fantastic

Beneath Clouds...a classic movie, perhaps Australia's greatest. One of those rare scripts which includes long, silent expression as a big part of the dialogue. There is real magic in Dannielle Hall's face, on which the camera loves to linger for us. A fine study of blind racism and budding first love, with long distance trucks and ramshackle cafés grubbying the purity and mythic power of the Aussie outback as telling backdrop. All built on the classic form of road trip as attempted escape to a better world, punctuated with stops by hostile cops and other familiar dangers, but miraculously free of any taint of deja vu as a genuine bond emerges between two young people beset by the power and corruptions of a multi tribal adult world. And all is bound together seamlessly by the long held, steadying music, composed by Ivan Sen as he wrote the screenplay for his striking directorial accomplishment.

There are very few movies that I will want to watch more than once, but Beneath Clouds is definitely one of them. The majority of movies I have seen over the past years were very much focused on plot development and I think most viewers will expect a movie to be heavy on the storyline. What I expect from a movie is something totally different, though. None of my favourite movies have a a memorable or particularly well developed storyline. However, they all have something in common. All of them have a very powerful and gripping atmosphere, and it is this atmosphere that comes to my mind whenever I think back of these movies. Not a particular scene, a particular quote or a masterly twist in the storyline, not the visual effects or the sophisticated sound. This movie would be just as enjoyable watching it from a low quality videotape on a black and white telly with low sound quality. Beneath Clouds instantly became a favourite with me, from the very first moments I started watching it. I love this movie, simply because it gives you an experience, a combination of vision, sound, thought and emotion that cannot be described with words and that is exactly what I expect from a movie. If you think what I am saying here is b.ll.cks and doesn't make sense - well, it's up to you. But if you know what I am blathering about you will understand and LOVE this movie. Wochit.

Ultimately the fact that Vaughn doesn't recognise Lena as a fellow Aboriginal underlies the whole youthful crisis of identity that is so poignantly illustrated in this film. It's simple to gloss over the whole black vs. white thing, but these two kids are on the same journey, have the same problems and don't know what they're going to find when they get where they're going. That could be anyone, and Vaughn doesn't realise this at first.Having said that you can take just as much from the film in terms of what it is to be young, aboriginal and male in Australia, as opposed to young, white (which everyone in this film seems to simply assume of Lena due to her freckles) and female. Both are judged and abused as a consequence of their identity... I must say I do get a bit sick of the constant portrayals of an unavoidable culture of racism in Australia, and there's the one guy who gives them a lift in the film (without really saying anything) who is obviously designed to counter-balance this. I guess I'm just hanging out with the wrong people! I initially saw the first 60 minutes of this film on television but had to tear myself away to show up to some social engagement that I was consequently late for. I hired it on DVD to see the last 30 minutes, but watched it again from the beginning thinking I could skip some scenes - I didn't. It was well worth watching again from the beginning.It's an utterly pointless plot (it's a road trip) which becomes a beautiful story about the relationship between the two main characters and their personal aspirations of family. And it's amazingly illustrated. Highly recommended, and I'm off to look for the NZ version that another commentator here claims it was based on... but then again they do say something along the lines of "there are only 13 scripts in Hollywood".Compulsory viewing for all schools in Sutherland Shire and Lakemba. Anyway I'm blabbering now. I just wanted to give it a nine.

I was fascinated by the atmosphere of this film. The lots ofclose-ups together with the attracting photography and thesensitive performance of the two young people make this abreathtaking film. The easy-going rhythm of the film feels never as too slow but isinherent to the character of the aboriginals. The soundtrack also gives this film an extra dimension and is veryenjoyable. Together with "rabbit-proof fence" and "picnic at hanging rock" oneof the Australian films which impressed me most.