Cloud Nine

Simply shot with a documentary-like feel, Andreas Dresen's Cloud 9 will be seen as brave and controversial for its unblinking look at passionate sex between lovers well past retirement age. Inge (Ursula Werner) falls for Karl (Horst Westphal) and their frenzied coupling is joyous and frankly thrilling. But childish Inge never imagined the pain her affair would cause husband Werner (Horst Rehberg) and her daughter. Nor what it would do to herself. The endgame is wrenching.