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Cast
- Ursula WernerInge
- Horst RehbergWerner
- Horst WestphalKarl
- Steffi KühnertPetra
Recommendations
- 80
The New York Times
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. - 76
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. - 75
New York Post
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. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
A stark, minimalist drama. - 60
Empire
Disappointing third act to this brave drama about love and sex in our later years. - 60
Time Out
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. - 60
Variety
Overall tone lies somewhere between Mike Leigh and Ken Loach in performances and look, with a modest tech package. - 58
The A.V. Club
Ultimately though, apart from the ages of the protagonists, Cloud 9 is a standard-issue infidelity story.
