Cloud 9

Released Aug 14, 2009

1h 38m

Drama

Romance

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89%

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44 Reviews

58%

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250+ Ratings

A 67 year old woman falls in love with a 76 year old man and rediscovers her sexuality.

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Critics Consensus

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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G. Allen Johnson

San Francisco Chronicle

Dresen films much of the movie in close-up and medium shots, making sure we see every wrinkle and age spot, every expression, every emotion.

Rated: 3/4

Sep 23, 2020

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Ella Taylor

NPR

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.

Sep 23, 2020

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Donald Clarke

Irish Times

There is tragedy and awkwardness here, but Cloud 9 never feels like a chore.

Sep 23, 2020

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David Sterritt

Christian Science Monitor

"Cloud 9" offers the welcome spectacle of two oldsters discovering romantic bliss, even though that bliss ultimately comes at the expense of others.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 23, 2020

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Dan Lybarger

eFilmCritic.com

This German entry benefits from a matter-of-fact approach.

Rated: 3.5/5

May 2, 2010

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Loey Lockerby

Kansas City Star

This moral ambivalence is both the movie's strength and its greatest weakness. In virtually every way, Inge's behavior is unconscionable.

Rated: 2.5/4

Apr 2, 2010

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L'amour. Sentiment puissant. Alors que je croyais que ce film allait nulle part, il est venu d'un coup me saisir et me bouleverser. Il laisse des questions en nous, du genre : Devons-nous nous laisser aller à nos sentiments, nos pulsions ou continuer notre route tranquille pour éviter les dommages collatéraux ?

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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You can tell its unscripted and unplanned and its mises a soundtrack but otherwise its ok. Its nice to see older romances but there was little other point to ths film file under ok

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/31/23

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Very powerful, and self-consciously so, regardless of any possible questions about sudden character development.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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What a great, original film. It's probably one of the most depressing films I've seen in awhile, I mean it dashes any remaining hopes of an already bleak outlook on marriage in society. It brings the look on relationships after the long term. And the scary part about it is, I could see the perspective on both sides and it makes you wonder about everything that can go wrong in the long run. This is one honest film.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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Audience Member

because love and desire has no age....

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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Yep. This movie is actually a feminist nightmare. It's overt nihilism is spine chilling in it's ability to inspire confusion and dread. It should honestly be classified as a horror film. It had almost no redeeming value of than it's perverse ironic one. Men. Welcome to the future. It's bleak and nasty when 60+ year old women are subject to uncontrolled hypergamy rooted in the limbic heart of darkness. How the fuck did this ever get such rave reviews? The feminist matrix moves beyond the screen and shrouds the seemingly most astute reviewers with it's insidious social pervasiveness.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/28/23

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Andreas Dresen

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Inge

Horst Rehberg

Werner

Horst Westphal

Karl

Steffi Kühnert

Petra

Andreas Dresen

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Synopsis

A 67 year old woman falls in love with a 76 year old man and rediscovers her sexuality.

Director: Andreas Dresen
Producer: Peter Rommel
Screenwriter: Andreas Dresen, Jörg Hauschild, Laila Stieler, Conny Ziesche
Distributor: Music Box Films
Production Co: Peter Rommel Productions
Genre: Drama, Romance
Original Language: German
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 14, 2009, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 18, 2010
Box Office (Gross USA): $91.3K
Runtime: 1h 38m

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