With The Edge of Heaven, the marvelously talented Fatih Akin, a German filmmaker of Turkish origin, continues to explore questions posed in Head On.
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05/27/08
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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
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
[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
The Edge Of Heaven's final part is less spectacular by design, and feels a little forced at times, but Akin's multigenerational cast helps give the story a touching sense of perspective.
05/23/08
[A] superb film about the eternal pull of family.
08/08/08
In 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 CriticAn ode to youth and homelands, this fictional tale lives up to its searing title.
05/23/08
Akin's purpose, I think, is a simple one: He wants us to meet these people, know them, sympathize with them....I found them fascinating.
06/13/08
Top CriticThe film has a bit of the overdetermined, cosmic-coincidence quality you find, for example, in a work like Babel. These are troubled people caught in the grip of fate, yet Akin, I think, has the skill and the insight to make do with a little less p
06/13/08
Top CriticPowerful, sexually graphic drama.
05/23/08
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
Strong and artful and well-made, but it also feels like its unpredictability is actually predictable, that its unconventional narrative is, in fact, conventional.
05/25/07
[Akin's] most accomplished film yet.
06/05/08
Hanna Schygulla cuts through platitudes with a privately fierce, graceful sense of spiritual space
08/25/09
Plays out like a complex novel clearly adapted to the screen, and yet it's an original screenplay.
05/29/08
Propelled 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
What Akin says about parent-child relationships is perceptive, and the cast is very good.
08/15/08
A stirring drama of frayed nationality and hungry connection.
05/23/08
Top CriticLeaves behind the raw power and direct impact tactics of Gegen die Wand (Head-on) for something more evocative and complex.
05/25/07
Slowly paced but never dull, filled with quiet moments that add up to a thoroughly moving experience.
04/30/08
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