Old lovers In love, all ages are agile
Married 60-year-old pensioner Inga, working as a seamstress, decided to bring ready-made pants to her 76-year-old client Carl. And while he tried them on, she was so excited and eager that neither the client nor the audience could not notice it. Falling into each other's arms, Inga and Carl indulged in such unrestrained carnal passion that the young would envy. And then, while he was tidying up in the bathroom, she ran in fear without even saying goodbye. Thus began their secret love affair “in the ninth sky” (this is the idiomatic name for the film and appropriated in Russia).
Inadvertent sexual intercourse put both participants out of balance. Now Inga began to look at himself in the mirror often and intently, and Karl began to take daily cycling trips, running like obsessed with the surrounding parks on his two-wheeled friend. And instead of delving deeper and deeper into spiritual reflections on the meaning of life and death, which is prescribed, first of all, to engage in old age, these two decided to go into all seriousness, as if seeking revenge from their youth. Moreover, Inga, going to bed, now began to harass her 70-year-old husband Werner, to indulge in existential longing during the day.
The left novel noticeably diversifys the gray same-type everyday life of Inga, who spends year after year in the closed world of her apartment, where together with her husband they spend inconspicuous evenings at the TV. However, systematic betrayal, in the end, makes Werner pay attention to where Grandma got German sadness? But sensual sex on the side (and with butterflies in the stomach) brings us closer than the insensitive habit of sitting on the couch with someone you know as peeled for thirty years. And all this would be good if it wasn't so embarrassing.
Instead of rejoicing for the person you live with, the selfish sense of ownership, fueled by jealousy, turns into reproach and hatred, revealing the wretched surrogate of what in the modern world is called love. In a world where it is considered that the “second half” are in our lifetime service, legalized by the stamp in the passport. Therefore, the modern Western man, who lives in a rational world, being captured by his own mind, is very afraid of the feelings and changes that they can lead to. And, as a result, dependently believes, referring to Exupery, that the partner is forever responsible for those whom he tamed.
44-year-old German director Andreas Dresen turned to such an extremely unpopular topic as “sex at the third age”, the filmography of which is limited to a very small number of films. Moreover, he bravely, even with some challenge, demonstrates here what in the movies they try to avoid everywhere, even in episodes. He shows old flabby bodies, including in bed scenes. These erotic performances can become a serious test for those whose perception is formatted by aesthetics, exploiting exclusively slender, athletic and young figures who everywhere occupy television advertising.
Shooting the film in the realistic vein of Danish dogma, that is, using the language of condo realism, Dresen achieves a killer effect as a result, sending to a deep knockout anyone who associates sex exclusively with youth, well, or at least with the maturity of the performers. Therefore, Wolke 9 is a picture that can have a very high percentage of viewers who never watched it until the end, and perhaps even dropped out shortly after the start. Especially since Ursula Werner and Horst Westphal (who in reality was even older than his hero by 4 years), demonstrate such reckless prowess that only a wonder is given.