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Eight Miles High

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Eight Miles High (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 16

Fresh: 7

Rotten:9

Average Rating: 5.2/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:Jul 11, 2008 Limited

Synopsis: Exuding the sexy poutiness of a Teutonic Bridget Bardot gone wild and the underground glamor and bad-girl attitude of Kate Moss, with just a dash of Jane Fonda’s chic revolutionary zeal, Uschi... Exuding the sexy poutiness of a Teutonic Bridget Bardot gone wild and the underground glamor and bad-girl attitude of Kate Moss, with just a dash of Jane Fonda’s chic revolutionary zeal, Uschi Obermaier not only shook conservative German society but also the anti-establishment and feminist movements she became part of. The hippie nymph and successful model never let business get in the way of pleasure, flaunting her romances with the likes of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Jimi Hendrix.

Obermaier was a teenage runaway from a small village who, after achieving early notoriety as a nude cover model for Stern (one of Germany’s leading magazines), became the it-girl of the Munich club scene. She soon joined Germany’s legendary and much-romanticized Kommune 1, famous for its strident anti-bourgeoisie way of life. This touch of radical chic worked wonders for her profile: Obermaier and boyfriend Rainer Langhans, leader of the commune, became the pin-up couple of the revolutionary left; Germany's own John and Yoko.

But for Obermaier, emancipation was about sexual freedom more than anything, and her celebrity and fun-loving ways led her away from activism to stints as a full-time Rolling Stones groupie and flirtation with acting (co-starring with a young Rainer Werner Fassbinder in one instance). Obermaier continued chasing independence with a new lover on a wild 10-year hippie adventure in a customized van – until tragedy forced her to question the price of freedom.

Obermaier now lives quietly in Topanga Canyon, but in Germany her fame has never been higher. Eight Miles High was a huge box-office success when it came out earlier this year, and High Times, the biography on which it is based, was a bestseller. At a time when German chancellor Angela Merkel is arranging for the release of the remaining jailed Baader-Meinhof members, Obermaier has remained a photogenic symbol of the new freedom Germany has come to define itself by. --© Dokument Films
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Starring: Natalia Avelon, David Scheller, Matthias Schweighöfer

Starring: Natalia Avelon, David Scheller, Matthias Schweighöfer

Director: Achim Bornhak

Director: Achim Bornhak
Screenwriter: Dagmar Benke, Achim Bornhak
Studio: Dokument Films

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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.

Full Review Source: Film-Forward.com | comment Comment
12/03/08
Nora Lee Mandel
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.

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10/07/08
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

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

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08/22/08
Roger Ebert
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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.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
08/21/08
Michael Phillips
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.

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07/25/08
Mark Olsen
Los Angeles Times
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07/22/08
Ronnie Scheib
Variety
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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.

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07/17/08
Marcy Dermansky
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Has little to offer beyond titillation and pretty landscapes.

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07/16/08
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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The events on display have been covered%u2014over and over and over again.

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07/14/08
Lewis Beale
Film Journal International

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

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07/11/08
Nathan Lee
New York Times
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You will marvel at just how naked the beautiful and talented Natalia Avelon remains scene after scene.

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07/11/08
Kam Williams
NewsBlaze

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

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07/10/08
Sam Adams
AV Club

The biggest buzzkill that could possibly come of so much raw material.

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07/10/08
Michelle Orange
Village Voice
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A movie filled with unintentional humor. Enjoyable in its cartoonish way like R. Crumb's hippies.

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07/10/08
Louis Proyect
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A cautionary tale about the acute discontent and loneliness that comes from a constant craving for new and exotic experiences.

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07/09/08
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

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

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07/09/08
David Fear
Time Out New York

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

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10/17/07
Joseph Proimakis
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