New Zealand clouds in the movies

 

 My 3rd experience of Covid. Or maybe my 2nd? Not sure.

This time I have our bedroom to myself, a lovely view to a pure blue sky with clouds different from anywhere else. 

 

New Zealand clouds put on an unrivaled show, from floating innocence in a baby-blue sky, to towering creamy mega-shapes which assume an evolving crimson flush at sunset. With the sun's gradual disappearance, the colour changes to a dark concrete gray.

Lech Majewsky came to New Zealand to film the clouds for his medieval movie The Mill and the Cross. (Anchored in a painting by Bruegel the Elder, the story is actually located in Flanders). I recognised those clouds the moment I saw them, saying happily: "New Zealand clouds!" out loud into the cinema's darkness. It's an outstanding movie, for many reasons. I bought a copy to keep.

The other movie I truly love is Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia. No clouds.