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Green star The Edge of Heaven

don't miss! Germany, Turkey, 2007 | 122 min. | Dir. Fatih Akin

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The Edge of Heaven The Edge of Heaven (by SIFF Emerging Master 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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