
Akiz's movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement in Germany and groupie. At the age of 16, Uschi is bored by her job in a photo lab, but soon becomes the "it girl" of Munich's club scene. When she gets to know Rainer Langhans, they move to Berlin and live in "Kommune 1", the first politically-motivated commune in Germany. While the other occupants claim she isn't political enough, Uschi just wants to have fun, works as fashion model ... (Full plot summary below)
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Akiz's movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement in Germany and groupie. At the age of 16, Uschi is bored by her job in a photo lab, but soon becomes the "it girl" of Munich's club scene. When she gets to know Rainer Langhans, they move to Berlin and live in "Kommune 1", the first politically-motivated commune in Germany. While the other occupants claim she isn't political enough, Uschi just wants to have fun, works as fashion model and leads international music stars in temptation...
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| NewsBlazeKam WilliamsYou will marvel at just how naked the beautiful and talented Natalia Avelon remains scene after scene. |
| Capital Times (Madison, WI)Rob ThomasOnce your main character walks into a room and finds her boyfriend cheating on her with another woman while a chimpanzee in a dress looks on, you've pretty much lost your shot at a serious movie. |
| Film-Forward.comNora Lee MandelRefreshingly, a '60's nostalgia trip from the self-indulgent point of view of the German template for the beautiful-naked-model-bedding-chauvinist-rock-god formula. |
| Film Journal InternationalLewis BealeThe events on display have been covered%u2014over and over and over again. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie presents the surfaces of Obermaier's life but never lets us understand who she was. |
| AV ClubSam AdamsIf the movie had greater style, it might approach the delirious badness of "The Valley Of The Dolls," but it's too dull to qualify as camp. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsThe film's tone is utterly indistinct, beyond fatuous adoration of its subject. |
| Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerIf most of the film locates Obermeier's quest for freedom in a series of surprisingly drab drug-fueled hookups, then the final section generates slightly greater interest by suggesting an alternate route of exploration. |
| About.comMarcy DermanskyNatalia Avelon is great to look at - either naked or in see-through clothes - and that's enough to merit 8 Miles High! a three-star-rating. |
| Movies for the MassesJoseph ProimakisAdiafora epifaneiaki syrrafi highlights (kai lowlights) ap' tin tarahodi zoi tis Ushi Obermaier, dihos idiaitero noima, i sygkekrimeno stoho. |