Das wilde Leben 2007

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The attractive but bird-brained German biopic Eight Miles High brings up the question of tone, and it never comes close to answering it. The film's tone is utterly indistinct, beyond fatuous adoration of its subject. Read more

Nathan Lee, New York Times: Like most flower-power nostalgia trips, Eight Miles High has the irksome effect of reminding the audience " whether too young or too square " that it missed out on the grooviest moment in history, man. But as these things go, this one goes with Read more

Sam Adams, AV Club: Notwithstanding the occasional unintended guffaw, Obermaier's fabulous life is resoundingly unexciting. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: Eight Miles High, based on the memoirs of Uschi Obermaier, wants to be both a tangy piece of Eurosleaze and an overview of one woman's transformations from the heady days of the 1960s onward. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Has little to offer beyond titillation and pretty landscapes. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It has few human insights, and those of the most obvious kind. But it is not boring. That goes for something. Read more

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Michelle Orange, Village Voice: The biggest buzzkill that could possibly come of so much raw material. Read more