The Edge of Heaven
122 min.
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Dir. Fatih Akin
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Rated NR
The Edge of Heaven (by Head-On director Fatih Akin) starts out broad and then narrows to a point sharp enough to pierce your heart. Opening with the lightly crass scenario of an elderly Turkish-German immigrant inviting a prostitute to become his kept woman, the film hitches on a sudden crisis and splits into two crisscrossing threads: The long-abandoned daughter of the hooker comes to Germany and falls in love with a girl; the son of the immigrant goes to Turkey to locate the long-abandoned daughter. The plot’s many coincidences feel arbitrary, not artificial, and the characters are as credibly unformed as the filmmaker is impressively mature.
By Annie Wagner
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