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- 2009
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- Music Box Films
- 1 h 39 m
- 2009
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- Music Box Films
- 1 h 39 m
Summary Cloud 9 is the story of a 67-year old married woman who rediscovers passion and her sexuality when she falls in love with a 76-year old man. (Music Box Films)
Directed By: Andreas Dresen
Written By: Jörg Hauschild, Laila Stieler, Cooky Ziesche, Andreas Dresen
- 2009
- R
- Music Box Films
- 1 h 39 m
- 2009
- R
- Music Box Films
- 1 h 39 m
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Summary Cloud 9 is the story of a 67-year old married woman who rediscovers passion and her sexuality when she falls in love with a 76-year old man. (Music Box Films)
Directed By: Andreas Dresen
Written By: Jörg Hauschild, Laila Stieler, Cooky Ziesche, Andreas Dresen
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Generally Favorable
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
64
57% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
43% Mixed
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6 Reviews
0% Negative
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All the more disappointing, then, when what has been a celebration of last-ditch passion slides abruptly into a cautionary tale. Until that point the movie's refreshingly unbiased tone allows us to make our own moral judgments, teasing us with the possibility that, occasionally, the scarlet woman can escape unbranded. I, for one, was rooting for her.
This isn't just physical love, warts and all, but warts, liver spots, saggy parts, and all. Still, the thing that ultimately keeps your head turned is how persuasively filmmaker Andreas Dresen ("Summer in Berlin'') argues that desire can create just as much emotional tumult in golden years as in youth.
A stark, minimalist drama.
Cloud 9 may not be my idea of a great movie, but it doesn't pretend that old folks are, by definition, sexless. In the movie business, this qualifies as a revolution.
Cloud 9's plot is thin, the conflict lazy, and the resolution sudden and unsurprising. That's a shame, because stronger development in the story department might have made this film a minor sensation.
Ultimately though, apart from the ages of the protagonists, Cloud 9 is a standard-issue infidelity story.
Besides the frank, blithe sex scenes, a melodramatic ending aims to banish any last hope of gemütlichkeit, but the film comes to feel curiously incomplete, like one long fretful afternoon.
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Production Company
Peter Rommel Productions,
Senator International,
Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB),
ARTE
Release Date Aug 28, 2009
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating R
Tagline A Story of New Love in Old Age.
Awards
German Film Awards
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Bavarian Film Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
