Posted AT 10:54 AM EDT on 04/09/07
The Edge of Heaven
The Edge of Heaven **** Fatih Akin (Germany/Turkey)
Perhaps the most important emerging talent in German cinema, Fatih Akin delivers a deep, immensely satisfying feature about love, family and the notion of home in which the lives of three “incomplete” families intersect. A retired father, his professor son, two mothers and their daughters lose and then find each other in surprising ways, the action moving between Germany and Turkey.
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