A beautiful tissue-paper piece of art that falls to shreds should you so much as blow upon it
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01/15/09
Cherry Blossoms (2009)
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Reviews Counted:51
Fresh:42
Rotten:9
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: This mature and eloquent meditation on grief and loss sports measured performances and moments of humor.
Theatrical Release:Jan 16, 2009 Limited
Box Office: $293,708
Synopsis: Doris Dörrie (HOW TO COOK YOUR LIFE) directs this drama about an older married couple in love. Wife Trudi is the only one who knows that her husband, Rudi, has a disease that will kill him. In... [More]
Starring: Elmar Wepper, Hannelore Elsner, Aya Irizuki, Birgit Minichmayr
Director: Doris Dörrie
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Reviews for Cherry Blossoms
Cherry Blossoms' compositions are meticulous, and Dorrie modernizes her style with intermittent use of a handheld camera and impressionistic editing.
01/15/09
This portrait of an aging couple is a deeply rewarding, heartbreaking, utterly worthy successor to two films which inspired it: Ozu's Tokyo Story and Leo McCarey's great, forgotten 1937 Make Way for Tomorrow.
01/15/09
All but remaking the 1953 art-house classic Tokyo Story in its first third, Cherry Blossoms fortunately sidesteps rank mimicry in favor of wry homage and something more.
01/14/09
Doris Dorrie’s Cherry Blossoms translates a foreigner-in-Japan experience much better than Sofia Coppola could.
01/14/09
The film's soggy visuals end by reducing the plight of the grief-struck central figure to the stuff of overly prettified kitsch.
01/12/09
An exquisitely acted and visually stunning German film which vividly conveys the beauty and profundity of impermanence.
01/09/09
A painterly, contemplative, poignant drama of a man's journey of self-discovery to Japan.
01/08/09
Writer-director Doris Doerrie has crafted an emotional and adult journey with Cherry Blossoms.
12/10/08
Doris Dorrie's bittersweet film is a story of mourning and the futility of trying to recover something lost.
10/18/08
A surprisingly deep tale about a middle-aged German couple discovering love on the brink of death.
10/18/08
Cast is spot-on, with craft package to match.
02/13/08
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