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Das Wilde Leben (Eight Miles High!) (2007)

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Average Rating: 4.8/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 5

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A Munich teen achieves worldwide fame as the embodiment of sexual freedom in the 1960s after romancing some of the biggest rock stars on the planet and rising to stardom as a successful supermodel in this biographical musical drama centering on the eventful life of Uschi Obermaier. Until she arrived at the legendary Berlin "Kommune 1," Obermaier (Natalia Avelon) was just your typical German teen. All of that would quickly change, however, as Obermaier entered into a heated affair with leader

Unrated, 1 hr. 54 min.

Drama, Comedy

Dagmar Benke, Achim Bornhak

Aug 3, 2007

Dokument Films

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All Critics (19) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (10)

It has few human insights, and those of the most obvious kind. But it is not boring. That goes for something.

August 22, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
Chicago Sun-Times
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The attractive but bird-brained German biopic Eight Miles High brings up the question of tone, and it never comes close to answering it. The film's tone is utterly indistinct, beyond fatuous adoration of its subject.

August 21, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
Chicago Tribune
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Eight Miles High, based on the memoirs of Uschi Obermaier, wants to be both a tangy piece of Eurosleaze and an overview of one woman's transformations from the heady days of the 1960s onward.

July 25, 2008 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
Los Angeles Times
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Has little to offer beyond titillation and pretty landscapes.

July 16, 2008 Full Review Source: New York Post | Comment
New York Post
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Like most flower-power nostalgia trips, Eight Miles High has the irksome effect of reminding the audience " whether too young or too square " that it missed out on the grooviest moment in history, man. But as these things go, this one goes with

July 11, 2008 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
New York Times
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The biggest buzzkill that could possibly come of so much raw material.

July 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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Refreshingly, a '60's nostalgia trip from the self-indulgent point of view of the German template for the beautiful-naked-model-bedding-chauvinist-rock-god formula.

December 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Film-Forward.com | Comment
Film-Forward.com

Once your main character walks into a room and finds her boyfriend cheating on her with another woman while a chimpanzee in a dress looks on, you've pretty much lost your shot at a serious movie.

October 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Capital Times (Madison, WI) | Comment
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

Natalia Avelon is great to look at - either naked or in see-through clothes - and that's enough to merit 8 Miles High! a three-star-rating.

July 17, 2008 Full Review Source: About.com | Comment
About.com

The events on display have been covered%u2014over and over and over again.

July 14, 2008 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Film Journal International

You will marvel at just how naked the beautiful and talented Natalia Avelon remains scene after scene.

July 11, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment
NewsBlaze

Notwithstanding the occasional unintended guffaw, Obermaier's fabulous life is resoundingly unexciting.

July 10, 2008 Full Review Source: AV Club | Comment
AV Club

A movie filled with unintentional humor. Enjoyable in its cartoonish way like R. Crumb's hippies.

July 10, 2008 Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | Comment
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A cautionary tale about the acute discontent and loneliness that comes from a constant craving for new and exotic experiences.

July 9, 2008 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | Comment
Spirituality and Practice

The movie says nothing about the period and everything about the power of the pout.

July 9, 2008 Full Review Source: Time Out New York | Comment
Time Out New York

If most of the film locates Obermeier's quest for freedom in a series of surprisingly drab drug-fueled hookups, then the final section generates slightly greater interest by suggesting an alternate route of exploration.

July 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

Adiafora epifaneiaki syrrafi highlights (kai lowlights) ap' tin tarahodi zoi tis Ushi Obermaier, dihos idiaitero noima, i sygkekrimeno stoho.

October 17, 2007 Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Das Wilde Leben (Eight Miles High!)

In "Eight Miles High," Uschi Obermaier(Natalia Avelon) is discovered at a disco in Munich by a photographer in 1968. Her mother(Petra Berndt) is absolutely apoplectic when she finds the nude photos as she is worried what the neighbors will think. Uschi takes the opportunity to hit the road with her friend

August 5, 2009
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Walter M.

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Took me 3 start-and-stops to finish this. And I'm home sick and bed so its not really like I had anything else to do...I'm not sure what this movie set out to accomplish. If it was indeed written with the help of the real Uschi based on her experiences; she doesnt paint a very good picture of herself. She's

February 18, 2009

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