Fresh
What we don't suspect, going in, is that a film of such plain-speaking admonitions can exploit the element of surprise. Yet this heartfelt and precisely assembled drama does just that.
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
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The Edge of Heaven
Overview
The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.
Director and cast
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90%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Propelled by the beautiful camerawork and scenery that moves back and forth between pastoral idyll and urban chaos as it takes the viewer on a journey that ends with a final image as quiet and beautiful as any in recent cinema.
Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News
Fresh
Loneliness, loss and capricious love guide the fortunes of three families in this powerful, beautifully realized drama by German-Turkish writer/director Fatih Akin.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh
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.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Rotten
The care that Akin expends on his people is skimped in the structure of his screenplay.
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic
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