Cherry Blossoms 2008 123movies

Watch: Kirschblüten – Hanami 2008 123movies, Full Movie Online – When Trudi learns that her husband Rudi is dangerously ill, she suggests visiting their children in Berlin without telling him the truth. As Franzi and Karl don’t care much about their parents, Trudi and Rudi go to the Baltic Sea, where Trudi suddenly dies. Rudi is thrown out of gear, even more when he learns that his wife wanted to live a totally different life in Japan….
Plot: After finding out that her husband, Rudi, has a fatal illness, Trudi Angermeier arranges a trip to Berlin so they can see their children. Of course, the kids don’t know the real reason they’re visiting — and the catch is, neither does Rudi…
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Ratings:

	7.6/10 Votes: 5,943
	79% | RottenTomatoes
	62/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 86 Popularity: 4.21 | TMDB

Reviews:

a work of art
When her husband is diagnosed with a terminal illness, a German woman named Trudi decides it’s time the both of them paid a long overdue visit to their adult children – two of whom live in Berlin and one in Japan. The catch is that the husband, Rudi, doesn’t even know he’s sick and neither do the kids. Thus, Trudi must live with this horrible secret while putting on a brave face for those around her. But then a different, wholly unforeseen tragedy strikes the family and the movie heads off into an entirely new and utterly unanticipated direction from where we thought it was going.

A German movie set largely in Japan, “Cherry Blossoms” is a beautiful and heartbreaking film about living for the moment and of not putting off till tomorrow what you can do today. It’s also marvelously perceptive about the dynamics of parent/child relationships, especially when, as is true in this case, the parents are viewed by their self-absorbed offspring more as burdens to be endured than blessings to be cherished. The irony is that Rudi and Trudi have more in common with – and indeed are treated better by – many of the strangers and casual acquaintances they come in contact with than they are by their own children.

But the movie is also an examination of marriage and of how partners can become so entwined with one another as a couple that they lose their identities as individuals, missing out on the dreams and goals they had for their lives when they were still young and unattached. This is certainly the case for Trudi, who has harbored a lifelong desire to take up Japanese dancing, a desire that Rudi, in his selfish indifference, has pretty much squelched in her for the duration of their marriage. Such a realization of lost opportunities can lead to regrets, recriminations and despair at the end of the road, yet in the case of Rudi and Trudi, one learns that lesson a little too late – and the other just in the nick of time.

Elmer Wepper and Hannelore Elsner are magnificent as the aged couple, superbly capturing the deep-seated but often unspoken love that each spouse has for the other. A fine supporting cast, led by Maximilian Bruckner as one of their sons and Aya Irizuki as a young street artist who befriends Rudi in his time of greatest need, adds to the movie’s richness. Another crucial element in the emotional force of the movie is the richly elegiac score by Claus Bantzer.

The glory of this exquisitely realized and profoundly moving film is its willingness to grapple with some truly major issues – of life and death, of sorrow and loss, of filial and marital relationships – without getting heavy-handed and preachy about it in the process. Every moment in this film feels real and unforced, yet the movie itself has the minutely worked-out grace and precision of Japanese performance art (which we see quite a bit of throughout the course of the film). In fact, near the end, there is a fantasy dance sequence that is, quite frankly, one of the most utterly spellbinding scenes I’ve come across in ages.

Masterfully directed by Doris Dorrie, “Cherry Blossoms” is a lyrical and unforgettable work that takes its place among the truly outstanding films of recent times.

An angel lost in Tokyo
The life that people live here around, has a lot to do with the following verses of a famous and beautiful poem by Louis Aragon.

“Noting is taken for granted to man. Neither his strength Neither his weakness neither his heart. And when he believes that he opens his arms, his shadow has the shape of a cross. And when he believes that he seized his happiness, he smashes it. His life is a strange and a painful divorce.

There is no happy love”

Note particularly: “His life is a strange and painful divorce”

While Trudi was alive, Rudi made no effort to “bring his soul close to hers” (I do not know how to say it otherwise), I mean they were married, loved each other, were faithful, but “their souls were not married.”

After Trudi dies, Rudi realizes this, and is desolate.

He finds a way to “help souls to get close to each other” through a fortuitous encounter with a girl who is a street performer. This girl has more of an angel than someone of flesh and blood, because during the relationship with Rudi, completely free from any interest – she is a homeless, living under a tarp in a public garden, and is apparently alone in the world – she gives to Rudi, as a present, the art of dancing with the shadows, with the ephemeral and with people who are no longer among the people alive. In other words, she gave to Rudi, for free, a key which may help Trudi to rediscover and “save his soul.”

Imagine, to find an angel in the midst of the madness that is the life in Tokyo!

On the other hand, Trudi loved Butoh but could never practice it, because of the total disinterest of Rudi and this was certainly one of the sorrows that she carried with her when she died.

Rudi takes that key and succeed to meet Trudi in some ineffable dimension, where she is now.

The film is really beautiful. Everything and everybody are perfect. It made me weep a lot because of the atmosphere of “painful divorce” in which plunged the life of Rudi and Trudi, and because of the beauty of Rudi’s relationship with the angel of Butoh.

Other Information:

Original Language de
Runtime 2 hr 7 min (127 min) (Argentina), 2 hr 7 min (127 min) (Germany)
Budget 0
Revenue 12861658
Status Released
Rated Unrated
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Doris Dörrie
Writer Doris Dörrie
Actors Elmar Wepper, Hannelore Elsner, Aya Irizuki
Country Germany
Awards 8 wins & 8 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 3,490 m
Negative Format Video (HDTV)
Cinematographic Process HDV
Printed Film Format 35 mm