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Cherry Blossoms
Directed by
Doris Dörrie
Not Rated
2008
2h 7m
Drama
,
Romance
7.6
79%
91%
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After Rudi's wife Trudi suddenly dies, he travels to Japan to fulfill her dream of being a Butoh dancer.
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Cast of Cherry Blossoms
Elmar Wepper
Rudi
Hannelore Elsner
Trudi
Nadja Uhl
Franzi
Maximilian Brückner
Karl
Aya Irizuki
Yu
Birgit Minichmayr
Karolin
Felix Eitner
Klaus
Floriane Daniel
Emma
Celine Tanneberger
Celine
Robert Döhlert
Robert
Tadashi Endo
Butoh- Tänzer
Doris Dörrie
Director / Writer
Molly von Fürstenberg
Producer
Harald Kügler
Producer
Cherry Blossoms Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
Joshua Katzman
This may lack the understated pathos of Ozu's somber masterpiece, but it's still a moving meditation on aging and loss, and Wepper and Elsner are unforgettable.
Boston Phoenix
Gerald Peary
I can appreciate Dörrie's craft, and her sincerity, but the two-hour story of Rudi's evolution, which includes his unlikely friendship with a tiresome white-faced butoh performer (Aya Irizuki), meant nothing to me.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
A uniquely poignant meditation on mortality.
San Francisco Chronicle
Jonathan Curiel
The movie is an ideal blend of character study, deceptively simple plot twists, inspired acting, and travelogue.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
A quiet, moving tale of love and loss.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
If you have ever seen Yasujiro Ozu's masterpiece Tokyo Story -- one of the greatest films ever made -- you may respond to Doris Dörrie's Cherry Blossoms, which is a kind of homage.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
A most beautiful film.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Cherry Blossoms is both austere and garish, simultaneously dry and sentimental, tightly repressed and extravagantly expressive, bourgeois and bohemian. It's a seesaw, but [director] Dorrie finds the balance.
Village Voice
Ella Taylor
Yearning for Ozu, Dörrie stops off at cute, and parks.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
There's meat and sustenance there, but Cherry Blossoms too often traffics in shopworn Western notions of Japanese culture; it's a pilgrim's-eye-view of Zen.
Entertainment Weekly
Adam Markovitz
There's a grace to it all, and moments of oddball poetry will reward patient viewers.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
It is a seldom-told story in an essentially youth-oriented, escapist movie industry, but when it is told sublimely well, as it is by Ms. Dörrie now, and by McCarey in 1937, and by Ozu in 1953, it becomes a film for the ages.
The New Yorker
David Denby
The movie's conceits are just barely endurable, but the sharpness of Dörrie's eye -- for Tokyo's electric night, for Fuji's iconographic landscapes, for cherry blossoms -- sustains emotion even when story logic fails.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Refusing to be rushed, Doris Dorrie blends individual experiences with universal emotions to create a quietly moving study of self-discovery.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
At more than two hours, Cherry Blossoms could do with some pruning.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Doris Dorrie's Cherry Blossoms is both a tender tale of cultural crossings and a double portrait of grief.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Cherry Blossoms' compositions are meticulous, and Dorrie modernizes her style with intermittent use of a handheld camera and impressionistic editing.
Slant Magazine
Andrew Schenker
The film's soggy visuals end by reducing the plight of the grief-struck central figure to the stuff of overly prettified kitsch.
The Hollywood Reporter
Deborah Young
A surprisingly deep tale about a middle-aged German couple discovering love on the brink of death.
Variety
Eddie Cockrell
Cast is spot-on, with craft package to match.
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