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Fresh:63
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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
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.
a globetrotting human-rights drama about deported Turkish renegades and the lesbians and bookshop owners who love them.
Un drama sobre encuentros y desencuentros, azar y fatalidad, entre Alemania y Turquía. No carece de interés, pero le falta rigurosidad dramática.
Strong and artful and well-made, but it also feels like its unpredictability is actually predictable, that its unconventional narrative is, in fact, conventional.
Pretentious nonsense cut from the same cloth as "Crash" and "Babel". Filled to the brim with unbelievable coincidences and liberal pieties. Just the sort of thing that makes film festival panels salivate apparently.
If the united Europe aspires to compete with America globally, this is good news -- they've found their own Paul Haggis!
...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.
The care that Akin expends on his people is skimped in the structure of his screenplay.
Top CriticIn the course of the extraordinary film The Edge of Heaven children are lost, lost parents are never found, and generational and geographical distances grow wider.
Top CriticWhile Fatih Akin's script and direction give his actors room to grow, they don't necessarily give them the tools to do so. This is a film about being human that's characterized by the final shot of yet another temporal period of anticipation.
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.
The Edge of Heaven is a film to be seen, savored and thoughtfully appreciated.
Top CriticThe movie's real strength lies in its insight into the timeless struggles between parents and the children who need to establish their own identities.
The Edge of Heaven is the movie Babel so badly wanted to be.
The Edge of Heaven is about something more exasperating than crossed paths; it is about paths that almost cross but dont, and the tragedy of the near-miss.
With 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.
Akin's Head-On infused its hellish misfit romance with in-your-face violence; here even two violent deaths are rendered discreetly to the point of bloodlessness.
A guy who really understands split cultural personalities, [Akin's] got a good handle on what makes each individual unique and what might really bring us all together.
Leaves behind the raw power and direct impact tactics of Gegen die Wand (Head-on) for something more evocative and complex.
If you're anywhere near a city that's playing it in a theater, I couldn't be more direct - go see it. You will not regret it and not soon forget the best film so far this year.
May 25, 2008:
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