Ai confini del paradiso

Tying Knots That Bind Lives Despite the Divisions of Generation and Nationality

There are six principal characters in “The Edge of Heaven”: two mothers, two daughters, a father and a son, all arranged in more or less symmetrical pairs. In the course of this extraordinary film by the German writer-director Fatih Akin (which won the best screenplay award in Cannes last year) children are lost, lost parents are never found, and generational and geographical distances grow wider.
Yet at the same time, as the lives of the characters cross and entwine, there is a sense of human connections becoming stronger and thicker, of a fragile moral order coalescing beneath the randomness and cruelty of modern life. [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (4817 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 22 maggio 2008