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  • 2009
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 2 h 7 m
  • 2009
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 2 h 7 m

Summary Only Trudi knows that her husband Rudi is suffering from a terminal illness. She decides not to tell him and convinces him to visit their family in Berlin. Then, suddenly, Trudi dies. Rudi is devastated but vows to make up for her lost life. And so he embarks on his last journey - to Tokyo - in the midst of the cherry blossom festival, a...

Directed By: Doris Dörrie

Written By: Doris Dörrie

  • 2009
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 2 h 7 m
  • 2009
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 2 h 7 m

Cherry Blossoms

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
62
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
6.6
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Summary Only Trudi knows that her husband Rudi is suffering from a terminal illness. She decides not to tell him and convinces him to visit their family in Berlin. Then, suddenly, Trudi dies. Rudi is devastated but vows to make up for her lost life. And so he embarks on his last journey - to Tokyo - in the midst of the cherry blossom festival, a...

Directed By: Doris Dörrie

Written By: Doris Dörrie

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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69% Positive
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Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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A stunning reminder of the omnipresence of mortality.
By Kevin Thomas FULL REVIEW
80
Doerrie goes beyond the "Lost in Translation" jokes about East-West culture clashes to communicate something meaningful and deep about Japanese art and thought.
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75
Both austere and garish, simultaneously dry and sentimental, tightly repressed and extravagantly expressive, bourgeois and bohemian. It's a seesaw, but Dorrie finds the balance.
By Carrie Rickey FULL REVIEW
70
A successful novelist whose films bear the expansive plotting and telling character detail of the page, Doerrie never seems in any particular hurry to tell her tales, preferring the journey to the destination.
By Eddie Cockrell FULL REVIEW
63
It's a strained but heartfelt work of muted sentimentality, obvious in its symbolism but grounded in a sense of life's preciousness and brevity. Depending on your mood and indulgence, you may weep or you may be left out in the cold.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
50
At more than two hours, Cherry Blossoms could do with some pruning. And do husband and wife have to have rhyming names?
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
50
The best I can say for Cherry Blossoms is that it's made with love; the worst, that it's been a big hit in Germany. Yearning for Ozu, Dörrie stops off at cute, and parks.
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Production Company Olga Film, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), ARD Degeto Film, ARTE
Release Date Jan 16, 2009
Duration 2 h 7 m
Rating Unrated
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Website http://www.kirschblueten-film.de/
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Awards

German Film Awards
• 3 Wins & 6 Nominations
Bavarian Film Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
German Film Critics Association Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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