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Clouds: Letters to My Son

Clouds: Letters to My Son

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 17, 2001

Runtime

1h 16m

Genres

Documentary, Romance

User Score

50%

Original Title

Nuages: Lettres à mon fils

Production Companies

Pegasos Film, Man's Films

Director

Marion Hänsel

Description

Marion Hänsel directed this personal meditation on the joys and responsibilities of parenthood, in which a narrator reads Hansel's philosophic musings on raising her young son on her own, while carefully shot and selected footage of different cloud formations from around the world provide a striking visual backdrop. Catherine Deneuve read Hänsel's text in the original French-language version of Nuages; Charlotte Rampling did the honors for the English-language print, while Barbara Auer, Carmen Maura, and Antje De Boeck respectively lent their voices to the German, Spanish, and Dutch editions of the film.