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!'
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08/13/09
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
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
Cloud 9 is an impressively acted tale which avoids the traps of sentimentality and prurience.
07/10/09
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
Dresen 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
An unexpectedly gripping melodrama that draws you into the heart of a situation where no one emerges unscathed.
07/10/09
As an in-your-face way of confronting ageism, it certainly does the trick, although I'm still feeling a bit queasy having just watched a granny drop her bloomers.
07/10/09
A quiet, insinuating film of rare emotional power and dramatic force that I haven’t been able to get out of my mind.
07/10/09
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.
10/09/09
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
This is a disarmingly tender human drama examining whether the elderly should prioritise lust or loyalty, shared memories or unforeseen adventures.
07/10/09
Compelling 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
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
The sex scenes are arguably pedantic and even crude, but Cloud 9 is raw human drama, well acted.
07/10/09
Dresen's unpatronising focus upon a neglected generation almost contains the air of a radical experiment.
07/10/09
A surprisingly poignant experience. You’ll never look at your granddad the same way again.
07/10/09
Manages to be vital, wrenching and even humorous yet does not deny the omnipresence of mortality.
08/28/09
Top CriticSeldom 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
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