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Rated: Not Rated
Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins
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 low rent. At first Alis German Professor son Nejat (Baki Davrak) seems disapproving about... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Baki Davrak, Nursel Kose, Hanna Schygulla, Tunçel Kurtiz, Nurgül Yesilçay
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.
The actors, except for Schygulla, are unknown - and they bring an air of weary authenticity to their roles.
What Akin says about parent-child relationships is perceptive, and the cast is very good.
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.
Loneliness, loss and capricious love guide the fortunes of three families in this powerful, beautifully realized drama by German-Turkish writer/director Fatih Akin.
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...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 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.
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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.
The care that Akin expends on his people is skimped in the structure of his screenplay.
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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.
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Akin's latest masterwork may...mark him as the man to inherit the mantle of the late, great Krzysztof Kieslowski.
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.
Thomas Wolfe wrote, "You can't go home again," but the new film from Fatih Akin explores a number of ways one can.
[Writer-director] Faith Akin is a real force as a filmmaker and gives us an intelligent and thought-provoking work of art.
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While 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.
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.
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The 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
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