The Cloud in Her Room (2020) User Reviews

some feelings

[j_movie · 5/10 · 3 August 2021]

With the blessing of Rotterdam tiger award and the gimmick of three full disclosure of male and female stars, it has naturally become the hot spot of this #first youth film exhibition # but it is also the best interpretation of moaning without illness. Many young directors will focus on the place where they grew up and the past, bright or sad, but I can't see any changes and arcs of characters in this film, and the text can be said to be basically zero. Finally, the award of the best art exploration award or the direction of editing may be just a comfort to some extent.

not very good

[curtispeace · 3/10 · 11 February 2024]

Hey it's an artsy fartsy Chinese movie, I lived in Hangzhou once, here we are again, a movie that lets you know nothing whatever about the cool place, and guess what, basically nothing whatever about the characters either, a girl goes here, goes there, lots of shots of her plain face and expressionless eyes, tons and tons and tons of shots of her smoking, of everyone smoking, she has sex once, with a kind of boyfriend who tells her he loved someone once before but can't love anyone now once was enough, and it goes on and on from scene to scene this girl's plain face, definitely not worth shooting a whole movie over!, do yourself a favor, skip it.

Slow, but lovely and intimate

[guilherme_silva_1992 · 8/10 · 25 August 2021]

It is slow and not that different from other art-house movies out there, which you can find in indie cinemas.

But it is good at what it does. I didn't fall in love with it while watching it, but it did stick with me. Weeks after watching this piece, I still find myself recalling some of its moments, some of its calmness.

Maybe it is just some kind of personal connection with some of the characters, who have since remained in my memories as distant old friends, especially Muzi. Or maybe it is really well acted and directed.

Either way, it is a movie I will be rewatching in the future.

Poetic meditation on longing, loneliness and love

[jorgeeduardo1961 · 10/10 · 10 August 2022]

Filmed in Hangzhou, "The Clouds in My Room" seeks to capture states-of-being and the feelings that go with them, and does this remarkably well through a subtle montage of cinematographically stunning images. Mood is more important than plot, although the plot offers a story which is universal: the loneliness of young adults, longing for companionship, understanding and love. And at the same time situated with precision: here that universal experience is captured in a specificity that is female, Chinese, and set in Hangzhou. Well-acted throughout, the first sex scene is surprisingly explicit, and yet perfectly conceived as underscoring the profound loneliness of Zhou Mozi, her existential despair at lack of meaningful connection. Like the ancient art of calligraphy, this film applies its ink (its sequences and frames) gently yet precisely to produce a work of art.