CLOUD 9

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The adultery that 67-year-old Inge (Ursula Werner) commits against her loyal husband Werner (Horst Rehlberg) of 30 years proves physically satisfying but emotionally devastating in Andreas Dresen's incomplete minimalist drama that features soft-core geriatric sex as its main selling point.

Wrapped up in Dresen's muted theme of late-blooming narcissism from a female perspective is Inge's unexplained decision to trash her marriage to an intelligent and caring man with whom she shares an active sex life.

As a work-at-home seamstress, Inge meets 76-year-old Karl (Horst Westphal) when she fixes his trousers, and chooses to hand deliver them in the interest of seducing him.

Inge battles with guilt and self doubt but chooses to pursue the affair with a man who seems to offer little other than sexual pleasure to a woman suffering from a kind of late life crisis.

Unrelated to its misleading title of imaginary bliss is an overriding theme about old age offering no surefire recipe for wisdom, or even for much common sense. How's that for depressing?

Not Rated. 98 mins.