Sex in old age? "Cloud 9" was overdue!
Without having seen the movie "Cloud Nine" by Andreas Dresen, I exclaim enthusiastically: Overdue! For a long time now I have been waiting for someone to seriously and sensitively deal with this topic, to be exact: for about 15 years. At that time, my friend Trish submitted her Master's thesis on sex in a nursing home. No idea what it contained. But since then I realize that our libido does not necessarily have an expiration date.
But while you are in front of the TV Beauty surgeries, live colonoscopy and cold drug withdrawal Hardly any other celebrity can save, physical desire seems to be one of the last untouched taboos in old age.
"Do your parents still have sex?" I ask my girlfriends. The answers range from "not for a long time" about "for heaven's sake" to "I do not want to imagine it". Rollator and incontinence panties, all right, but make love? An almost obscene idea. What is so strange about the lust of two people who already have a few decades more under their belt? Like a navel-free T-shirt, it only seems to be reserved for young and beautiful people, with all the others we start the blasphemy.
I was born in 1968 and grew into the power-love-non-war era, Although my parents never protested against Vietnam or stuck the atomic no-thanks plaques of the first hours on the 2CV, yet they were progressive people who never told me the tale of the rattle stork. From the beginning, at least theoretically, I knew where the rabbit was going, and was constantly confronted with the fact that my mother and father had sex with each other - not just in the form of two younger siblings.
When I'm a little girl Sunday morning in the direction of the parents bedroom trotted"At the door I occasionally heard the sounds, which I already understood at that time, that they are called" do not disturb now ". When I went to the bathroom as a school child at night, I came from a party late as a teenager - every now and then I encountered the clear soundscape.
For the last time it was Christmas Eve. The family said goodbye to the bedrooms, I loitered a bit in front of the TV and watched "Three Nuts for Cinderella" - until the undeniable sounds could not be ignored. The feast of love. Discreetly, I pulled myself into the guest bed - and sent a text message to my girlfriends. "My father and mother have sex." Prompt was returned: "Together?" "I am green with envy." "They gave each other for Christmas." "Sorry, I forgot what that is." At that point, none of us had any idea that my seventy-year-old growers would go on with it the next morning.
I say: Chapeau! I am not strangely touched. It's great that after more than forty years of marriage there is still a lot going on in bed. Admittedly, I pay my admiration from afar. I will not appeal to my parents for that, despite all my serenity this is still too private a part of their lives.
An old man kneads the breast of an old woman in the short excerpt, with which "cloud nine" is advertised, both giggle like the teenagers. I put myself in the woman. Your body is full, the skin is soft, it has lost its elasticity, She knows she's far away from the models on the billboards, farther away than ever, and that knowledge gives her tremendous serenity. The times when she believed she had to compete with some ideal are over, she has long since stopped wanting to measure herself and compare herself. That's why she does not hide. She does not have to think about an unwanted pregnancy. Nor do their thoughts wander into the workplace, to the unfinished tasks there, which used to make them nervous quickly. Or to the school problems of the children. She is completely with herself.
The same goes for the man. Two people for whom their withered bodies are so natural that they need no thought, They do not have to prove each other anything. Who can see in themselves only the man and the woman and concentrate completely on their inner youth and the intoxication of their feelings for each other. Sounds enviable.
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That's it: The movie "Cloud 9" + Trailer
Inge (Ursula Werner) is over 60 years old and really happy with her life. She sings in a choir, likes to sew and has been living with Werner (Horst Rehberg) in one for 30 years retracted but friendly marriage, But suddenly love breaks in over Inge: she falls in love with Karl, who is approaching 80. Karl is charming, makes Inge laugh and dissolves in her the passion of a 17-year-old out.
Inge does not hold out the game of hide-and-seek: the happiness the new man gives her is so strong that she is ready to to risk their marriage, Director Andreas Dresen has already proved in "Half Stairs" and "Summer in front of the Balcony" that he can make very realistic environmental studies. "Cloud 9" (start: September 4) is so close that the viewer thinks he's sitting on the couch next to Inge and Werner.
