A glorious romantic fantasy, aflame with passion and bittersweet longing.
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San Francisco ExaminerBarbara Shulgasser
San Francisco ExaminerBarbara Shulgasser
With a distractingly cute Quinn, a cartoonishly stern Giannini and woozily romantic Reeves and Sanchez-Gijon, this movie is overflowing with ditsy good will. But it just won't be everyone's cup of Chardonnay.
60
TV Guide Magazine
TV Guide Magazine
Half as interesting as a rerun of Falcon Crest and twice as long.
Here, instead, is Keanu Reeves in one of his off roles, sleepwalking dutifully but seeming to share the audience's bewilderment over how he wound up in this awkward, slow-moving story.
Alfonso Arau's romantic fable A Walk in the Clouds is so confounding a miscalculation that its every development causes your jaw to drop in sheer amazement.
30
Time Out
Time Out
This is shameless stuff: happy, barefoot peasants sing that traditional Latin cancion, 'Crush the grapes, crush the grapes,' the moonlight is so strong you could get burned, and the metaphors are writ large as tabloid headlines.