Edge of Heaven, The
Edge of Heaven, The
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From Fatih Akin, the writer-director of Head-On, comes this hyperlink narrative about the intersecting lives of six Turks and Germans who are working, loving, and dying in Bremen, Hamburg, and Istanbul. "It has a cumulative power, both intellectual and emotional, of its own" (The New York Times). Nominated for the Golden Palm and Winner of Best Screenplay at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. The ensemble cast features Tuncel Kurtiz, Nurgul Yesilcay, Baki Davrak, Hanna Schygulla, Patrycia Ziolkowska, and Nursel Kose. In German, Turkish, and English with English subtitles. Fatih Akin---Germany/Turkey---2007---116 mins.

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   | Lewis#4

Fatih Akin made this delicious film after winning wide recognition and honors for his previous "Head- On." It involves three parent-offspring dyads in an intricate story that oscillates between Germany (Bremen and Hamburg) and Turkey (Istanbul). The lives of these six individuals intersect in ways not always apparent to them, at least not by the end of the movie. (Movie characters do have imagined lives after the closing credits roll; who can say where their paths will lead them?) We see the hidden connections, the *Dxxkensian coincidences, but the director withholds much of this information from the protagonists. And this is what makes this film, which ends with a young man sitting on a beach, waiting, like Telemachus, for his estranged father to come in from the sea, unpredictable and exquisite. (*Facets' uptight computer declares that the common adjective derived from the name of the author of "Great Expectations" and "David Copperfield" is "offensive language" and therefore unacceptable. I’ve encountered this annoying squeamishness before, for example, in submitting a review of John Huston's adaptation of Herman Melville's famous whale-centered novel.)

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   | bmac#1

I was going to rate this a 5 but then the failure (so familiar) to resolve the various story lines left me a bit too empty. I keep thinking that this would make for a wonderful extended series, like so much of the best TV has become. Nonetheless, the well-hewn characters, the rich narrative, the perfect acting and the evocative sense of time and place all kept me on the edge of my seat (as well as the edge of tears!). The opening sequence ("The Death of Yeter") was especially moving.

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