It isn't enough for director and writer Fatih Akin to show that we're all only a few degrees from each other across countries; rather, he's also interested in the level of connectedness.
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02/09/09
The Edge of Heaven (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 69
Fresh: 62
Rotten:7
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Consensus: Evocative and complex, this story of struggling immigrants in Germany will stay with you after you leave the theater.
Theatrical Release:May 21, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $561,187
Synopsis: Retired widower Ali (Tuncel Kurtiz) sees a solution to his loneliness when he meets prostitute Yeter (Nursel Köse), and he proposes that his fellow Turkish native live with him in exchange for a... [More]
Starring: Baki Davrak, Nursel Kose, Hanna Schygulla, Tunçel Kurtiz
Director: Fatih Akin
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Reviews for The Edge of Heaven
[It's] a much-needed maturation of the Babel/Crash formula but also fails to rattle your bones the way those movies did. Pick your poison, I suppose.
09/19/08
He [director Fatih Akin] makes the random moments and chance encounters of life seem both utterly unpredictable and completely inevitable.
09/05/08
What we don't suspect, going in, is that a film of such plain-speaking admonitions can exploit the element of surprise. Yet this heartfelt and precisely assembled drama does just that.
09/05/08
Top CriticPropelled by the beautiful camerawork and scenery that moves back and forth between pastoral idyll and urban chaos as it takes the viewer on a journey that ends with a final image as quiet and beautiful as any in recent cinema.
09/05/08
Top CriticIntricate emotionally as well as in narrative terms, poignant but not mawkish, and told in an austerely compelling style, this is a wise and absorbing drama.
09/02/08
A transcendent film experience.
08/22/08
This is a movie that was pretty involving, which makes me all the more frustrated that it just ends without any closure. Sometimes it works in movies, but here it would have helped to have the story fully completed.
08/19/08
The actors, except for Schygulla, are unknown - and they bring an air of weary authenticity to their roles.
08/15/08
What Akin says about parent-child relationships is perceptive, and the cast is very good.
08/15/08
Akin doesn't hide the fatal destinies of major characters... but it's the lives of the survivors and how they choose to carry on that carry these crisscrossing stories.
08/14/08
The year's most moving film.
08/08/08
Loneliness, loss and capricious love guide the fortunes of three families in this powerful, beautifully realized drama by German-Turkish writer/director Fatih Akin.
08/08/08
Top Critic[A] superb film about the eternal pull of family.
08/08/08
...eventually you can't help but wonder if these poor folks are being tossed about by the capricious winds of fate -- or just jerked around by an ambitious young screenwriter.
07/31/08
The Edge of Heaven explores topics as varied as the tensions that accompany multiculturalism and globalization to the simpler human drama of how individuals cope with losses for which they bear a portion of the responsibility.
07/31/08
Top CriticAkin has the audacity and skill to create two characters who do not meet within the scope of the film but whom we know are fated for one another as surely as a trout and a stream.
07/02/08
The care that Akin expends on his people is skimped in the structure of his screenplay.
06/29/08
Top CriticIn a single two-hour film, Akin strikes the notes of emotional distress, geographical dissonance, generational discord, and nearly divine convergence that Kieslowski orchestrated over nearly six hours.
06/27/08
Top CriticAkin's latest masterwork may...mark him as the man to inherit the mantle of the late, great Krzysztof Kieslowski.
06/23/08
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