The critically acclaimed The Edge of Heaven, which won Best Screenplay at Cannes in 2007 is a beautiful story of forgiveness caught up in human complexity. This interwoven, character driven story. When his father (Tuncel Kurtiz) accidentally kills a prostitute (Nursel Koese), Nejat (Baki Davrak) seeks out the woman's 27-year-old daughter, Ayten (Nurgul Yesilcay), to make amends. Nejat focuses his search in Turkey, but Ayten, part of a closely scrutinized activist group, has already fled to Germany. There she is befriended by Lotte (Patrycia Ziolkowska) who will stop at nothing to defend and help her beloved new friend. All their lives intersect in locations from Germany to Turkey in this emotional provoking drama by acclaimed German director, Fatih Akin. This synopsis doesn't really capture the complexity of this film, as there is so much going on. One of the other great arcs of the story revolves around Lotte's mother (Hanna Schygulla) who goes through the unspeakable and we see her struggle to come out the other side.
Edge of Heaven didn't begin to captivate me, until about a 3rd of the way through and from there, with plot points converging and unforeseen events take shape, that this film really gets a grip on you. The style, the cinematography are wonderful. The film tends to drag in parts and ends rather abruptly for my taste but I can understand why the director chose to finish it at that point, however, if he chose to go a little farther, I think you would have been hearing a lot more about this film. I give The Edge of Heaven 4 stars and is widely available on dvd.
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