The Edge of Heaven confirms its director as a major new talent in world cinema.
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05/30/08
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The Edge of Heaven (2008)
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Reviews Counted:71
Fresh:63
Rotten:8
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
Plays out like a complex novel clearly adapted to the screen, and yet it's an original screenplay.
05/29/08
The Edge of Heaven ultimately triumphs over its overdetermined structure through the sheer power of its performers and the pleasures of some of its plot threads.
05/21/08
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
Slowly paced but never dull, filled with quiet moments that add up to a thoroughly moving experience.
04/30/08
Intricate and moving drama about life's struggles and near misses.
05/24/07
Top CriticThe 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 CriticWhat 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 CriticWith ensemble performances as intense as its drama, The Edge of Heaven leaves the viewer, like Nejat, sitting and waiting in patient awe for an end that will blow in either heavenly reconciliation or hellish oblivion.
02/21/08
Edge Of Heaven is slow and beautifully photographed, but watching the various characters move in and out of each other's lives becomes an oddly intense experience.
05/23/08
What makes the film remarkable is how delicately it whips up its intricate contrivances; what makes it a masterpiece is that it does none of the things we expect with those contrivances.
06/20/08
Akin 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
Fatih Akin's new film, once it comes together at the end and finally defeats the shagginess of his script, is a solid if uneven piece of work.
05/24/07
Depicts the messy and complicated feelings connected with familial love, commitments, and dealing with strangers.
05/22/08
Un drama sobre encuentros y desencuentros, azar y fatalidad, entre Alemania y Turquía. No carece de interés, pero le falta rigurosidad dramática.
08/02/09
...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
A transcendent film experience.
08/22/08
a globetrotting human-rights drama about deported Turkish renegades and the lesbians and bookshop owners who love them.
05/20/08
Thomas Wolfe wrote, "You can't go home again," but the new film from Fatih Akin explores a number of ways one can.
06/20/08
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.
02/09/09
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