GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Freaktana A Major Disappointment

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Andres-Camara When I see this film, I wonder why there is always talk of forgiveness in such extreme cases that society is not really willing to forgive. Anyone on the street if they were at the site of these characters, would not forgive what is forgiven in this movie.I'm surprised one thing about the movie. How well he sometimes uses ellipsis and how badly he uses them at other times. The latter are usually when you do not know how to get out of the moment in which you have gotten, makes an ellipsis and continues, however at other times, tells you several planes of a journey that no one cares to see. However good that is the ellipsis of the airport.The actors are very well. We have two types, those who forgive everything and those who only do bad things. But they are all very well in their roles. The problem is that being interesting the film and getting it is not slow if it makes it distant.He has a photograph that does not tell me anything other than thinking I do not use it.The manager, at least we have to thank him for not boring us. Other directors with this type of movies, they are very bored. He does not know how to make plans and many times he rolls it in a general way, which cools the situation and uses ellipsis halfway.Within the bad, the movie can be seen

thecatcanwait Was this going to be a keeper or be binned?Its all symmetrically constructed and contrived. A thick interwoven political seam is tying the film tidily too together. Narrative is jigsawed into precisely fitted – i.e engineered – plot pieces. Turkey bits slot into Germany bits and Germany bits get stuffed neatly into the Turkey bits (Lol)When a story gets to be too structured by coincidence it feels artificial. Life – authentic vitally lived life, in the raw, in the real – isn't scripted into tight predetermined plots.Seeing this confirmed a prejudice: the Turkish male attitude towards women (ok, thighbooted Turkish whores) is "I own you" = I'll slap you. Or we'll throw The Koran at you. Typically patriarchal and unsurprisingly chauvinistic. Therefore let Turkish women radicalise themselves, be running amok with guns. And love only women.(male Turkish Professors reading German are excepted, as they've liberated themselves via Goethe )The Turkish/Germany divide is suitably, equally, uniformly, intertwined. Commendable it is. Which is another way of saying worthy. But dull. Ken Loach would be proud.It's in the bin.

anpgr I just watched this film on the BBC iPlayer without knowing anything about the film or the director. I'm so glad that I actually took the time to see it. It overflows with human emotions, ranging from anger to romance, grief and forgiveness; an amazing story, as true as real life with characters that you can easily connect to which are brought to life by an exceptional cast. The film itself contains some spoilers that I originally thought were annoying but you then realise that the way the film is structured and the way the plot unfolds, are all elements a very cohesive output that is both creative and compelling. In terms of photography, I really loved some of the shots but I do not think that this was a priority for the director; and rightly so because the pace, story and emotions are so strong that I think any emphasis on photography would have took something away from the experience. Overall, a very nice surprise for me that will definitely make me watch some of the director's other films. Highly recommended.

random_avenger With a small scale ensemble cast, The Edge of Heaven examines several themes through the lives of the many characters. Nejat Aksu (Baki Davrak) is a professor of literature in a German university and not happy about his father Ali's new live-in partner Yeter (Nursel Köse), a prostitute who Ali (Tuncel Kurtiz) has hired to stay with him. Yeter has an estranged daughter Ayten (Nurgül Yesilçay) who Nejat decides to track down in Turkey after a tragedy occurs in the family. However, unbeknownst to Yeter and Nejat, Ayten has already traveled to Germany to look for her mother and seek a refugee status as she is a member of a rebellious activist group in Turkey. In Germany she meets a female student Charlotte (Patrycia Ziolkowska) who offers her a place to stay and eventually follows her back to Turkey, much to her mother Susanne's (Hanna Schygulla) chagrin.The two main story lines (those of Nejat / Yeter and Ayten / Charlotte) are presented after each other in a clear manner but the stories intertwine in many ways, often unnoticed by the characters, creating an extra feel of tragedy – the answer would be so close if only they knew each other! Besides the smaller instances of bad luck, the deaths of major characters are what end up driving the plot forwards, but in the end the message is hopeful; an understanding is what everybody is ultimately seeking.Akin's calm direction and the good performances throughout easily raise The Edge of Heaven among the best Turkish films I've seen (even though I have only seen a handful). The themes of finding one's true calling in life, the forgiving nature of parent–child relationships and the subpar human rights situation in Turkey are all explored without haste, always maintaining the balance between the different aspects of the story. For anyone who hasn't seen many Turkish films, The Edge of Heaven could be a good starting place, but I imagine it is also worth seeing for those more familiar with the country's cinema.