The Edge of Heaven (2007)
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Country: GER/TUR/IT
Technical: col 121m
Director: Fatih Akin
Cast: Baki Davrak, Tuncel Kurtiz, Nursel Köse, Nurgül Yesilcay
Synopsis:
The lives of a young Turkish-German professor and a Turkish political dissident are irreversibly linked when the father of the first visits a prostitute in Bremen, even though the young couple never meet.
Review:
A film constructed around a pair of deaths and a (re)union which is no more than foreshadowed before the closing credits, this second feature by Akin is an utterly absorbing look at young lives seeking direction and reconciling themselves with the older generation. The acting is superb, the director keeping his distance except when it really counts, and the structure boasts the non-linear approach to chronology that has been de rigueur ever since Amores Perros.
(Auf der anderen Seite)
Country: GER/TUR/IT
Technical: col 121m
Director: Fatih Akin
Cast: Baki Davrak, Tuncel Kurtiz, Nursel Köse, Nurgül Yesilcay
Synopsis:
The lives of a young Turkish-German professor and a Turkish political dissident are irreversibly linked when the father of the first visits a prostitute in Bremen, even though the young couple never meet.
Review:
A film constructed around a pair of deaths and a (re)union which is no more than foreshadowed before the closing credits, this second feature by Akin is an utterly absorbing look at young lives seeking direction and reconciling themselves with the older generation. The acting is superb, the director keeping his distance except when it really counts, and the structure boasts the non-linear approach to chronology that has been de rigueur ever since Amores Perros.
(Auf der anderen Seite)
Country: GER/TUR/IT
Technical: col 121m
Director: Fatih Akin
Cast: Baki Davrak, Tuncel Kurtiz, Nursel Köse, Nurgül Yesilcay
Synopsis:
The lives of a young Turkish-German professor and a Turkish political dissident are irreversibly linked when the father of the first visits a prostitute in Bremen, even though the young couple never meet.
Review:
A film constructed around a pair of deaths and a (re)union which is no more than foreshadowed before the closing credits, this second feature by Akin is an utterly absorbing look at young lives seeking direction and reconciling themselves with the older generation. The acting is superb, the director keeping his distance except when it really counts, and the structure boasts the non-linear approach to chronology that has been de rigueur ever since Amores Perros.