The result is a film in which age matters not at all and yet still matters hugely, and in which love is still a dream come true and an absolute mess.
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10/09/09
Cloud 9 (2009)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:30
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.9/10
Consensus: A raw, intimate and emotional insight into romance for the superannuated featuring taboo-breaking insight into the sex-lives of the over 60s.
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Aug 14, 2009 Limited
Synopsis: A woman has to decide if she wants to stay with her husband after three decades together in this German drama with a comedic undertow. Inge (Ursula Werner) is an ordinary woman in her mid-60s who... [More]
Starring: Ursula Werner, Horst Rehberg, Horst Westphal, Steffi Kuehnert
Director: Andreas Dresen
Reviews for Cloud 9
Top CriticDresen shows the events with a matter-of-fact clarity and patience, with a lack of editing or obnoxious musical score; the tone is startlingly quiet.
09/10/09
This German melodrama has its share of problems (uncertain tone, unsatisfying closure), but in its many good moments, it offers a honest portrait of sex among the elderly, which is an almost taboo subject in American movies.
08/29/09
An otherwise routine look at a love triangle is passed with middling success through geriatric and Teutonic filters in this largely improvised drama from veteran German director Andreas Dresen.
08/28/09
Manages to be vital, wrenching and even humorous yet does not deny the omnipresence of mortality.
08/28/09
Top CriticMr. Dresen and his actors create an atmosphere of reckless vulnerability that’s immediately compelling and artistically intriguing. We want to explore this relationship further.
08/26/09
Top CriticLiterally and figuratively blows the sheets off the taboo subject of geriatric sexuality.
08/18/09
Brave, provocative and deeply poignant with a raw and heartfelt performance by Ursula Werner. It's easily one of the most powerfully emotional films of the year.
08/18/09
a sincere, thoughtful tale of the human heart
08/16/09
Unrelated to its misleading title of imaginary bliss is an overriding theme about old age offering no surefire recipe for wisdom, or even for much common sense. How's that for depressing?
08/16/09
Seldom has any movie shown so much geriatric sex and full-frontal nudity (male and female). But, thanks to Dresen, it is all done with taste and sensitivity.
08/14/09
Top CriticCompelling German drama about a 67-year-old seamstress who is not content to wait out the final part of her life "aging gracefully."
08/14/09
Dresen's intimate, naturalistic style is key to how absorbing and convincing. . . are relationships exceptional and rare in a film.
08/14/09
Explores with emotional intelligence an elderly woman's passionate love affair and the ways it transforms her life.
08/13/09
Cloud 9 delivers a white hot blast of powerful emotions and makes us care about three characters in a direct and violent way
08/13/09
Apart from the ages of the protagonists, Cloud 9 is a standard-issue infidelity story, complete with dialogue like 'I didn’t want this, it just happened!'
08/13/09
This romance is powerful in fits and starts, capturing a golden-ager sensuality that almost never gets screen time -- at least not with this sort of unsentimental candor.
08/12/09
The film comes to feel curiously incomplete, like one long fretful afternoon.
08/11/09
Top CriticThe film may not be a masterpiece but it is tender, truthful and acted with great sensitivity.
07/10/09
This is a disarmingly tender human drama examining whether the elderly should prioritise lust or loyalty, shared memories or unforeseen adventures.
07/10/09
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