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Cloud 9(Wolke 9)

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Germany · 2008
1h 38m
Director Andreas Dresen
Starring Ursula Werner, Horst Rehberg, Horst Westphal, Steffi Kühnert
Genre Drama, Romance

Home-based seamstress Inge has seemingly been happily married for 30 years to Werner, with whom she has an intimate and tender relationship. But when she decides to deliver a pair of altered pants to Karl, she is suddenly stirred out of her comfort zone into a world of physical and emotional passion.

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Village Voice by

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.

60

Variety by Derek Elley

Overall tone lies somewhere between Mike Leigh and Ken Loach in performances and look, with a modest tech package.

76

NPR by Ella Taylor

Cloud 9 is most moving when it steps quietly into the gap between physical decline and the persistence, at full blast, of unfulfilled longing and desire.

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The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis

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.

50

The Hollywood Reporter by Ray Bennett

The film may attract older moviegoers curious to see their generation represented onscreen doing what comes naturally for once. It's doubtful that the general audience will be so inclined.

60

Time Out by Stephen Garrett

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.

75

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

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.

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