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A raw, intimate and emotional insight into romance for the superannuated featuring taboo-breaking insight into the sex-lives of the over 60s.
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Sometimes, apparently, the old saw about the heart wanting what it wants can apply to seniors precisely the same way it does to the young and foolish. Jul 29, 2010 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Sometimes, apparently, the old saw about the heart wanting what it wants can apply to seniors precisely the same way it does to the young and foolish.
Tom Russo
The heart is a riddle, and Cloud 9 deftly, wittily counts the ways. Dec 18, 2009 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
The heart is a riddle, and Cloud 9 deftly, wittily counts the ways.
Michael Phillips
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. Oct 9, 2009 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
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.
Tom Long
Manages to be vital, wrenching and even humorous yet does not deny the omnipresence of mortality. Aug 28, 2009 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Manages to be vital, wrenching and even humorous yet does not deny the omnipresence of mortality.
Kevin Thomas
Mr. Dresen and his actors create an atmosphere of reckless vulnerability that's immediately compelling and artistically intriguing. We want to explore this relationship further. Aug 26, 2009 | Rating: 3.5/5
Mr. Dresen and his actors create an atmosphere of reckless vulnerability that's immediately compelling and artistically intriguing. We want to explore this relationship further.
Jeannette Catsoulis
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. Aug 14, 2009 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
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.
V.A. Musetto
This German entry benefits from a matter-of-fact approach. May 2, 2010 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
This German entry benefits from a matter-of-fact approach.
Dan Lybarger
This moral ambivalence is both the movie's strength and its greatest weakness. In virtually every way, Inge's behavior is unconscionable. Apr 2, 2010 | Rating: 2.5/4
This moral ambivalence is both the movie's strength and its greatest weakness. In virtually every way, Inge's behavior is unconscionable.
Loey Lockerby
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. Sep 10, 2009 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
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.
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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. Aug 29, 2009 | Rating: B | Full Review…
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.
Emanuel Levy
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. Aug 28, 2009 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
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.
Wade Major
Literally and figuratively blows the sheets off the taboo subject of geriatric sexuality. Aug 18, 2009 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Literally and figuratively blows the sheets off the taboo subject of geriatric sexuality.
Kam Williams
While it is refreshing that "Cloud 9" treats its senior characters as sexual beings, there remains the question of whether the casual nudity and graphic sexuality is meant as a celebration or that it is simply meant to shock due to its getting so in the face of the viewer. Also, of dubious credibility is why Inge(Ursula Werner) would suddenly get sexually involved with Karl(Horst Westphal) who she only knows from mending his pants, as this would run very much against her character as a good wife and upstanding member of the choir.(After the first encounter, she does hesitate talking to Karl again.) Could it be that her husband of 30 years, Werner(Horst Rehberg), is the most boring person on the planet because he enjoys listening to the sound of trains?(I love trains but not that much...) What is known is that Werner married Inge after she already had her daughter Petra(Steffi Kuhnert) and she may have married him because he was nice and could support them which really should never be the basis of any marriage. So, while there might be tenderness between them, there is little love and that might explain why Petra is doing the happy dance when she finds out, especially as this might mean her mother is finding happiness for the first time in her life.
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