"Lost Together
Ethnic Turkish couple in Germany forge an unlikely bond
By GARY M. KRAMER
�Head-On,� is an intense romantic drama about two German-born Turks trying to eke out a life for themselves on their own terms.
This sexy, violent and emotionally involving film is nothing less than astonishing. Writer-director Fatih Akin has taken a dense character study about two mismatched lovers drawn together by fate and turned it into something extraordinary�and extraordinarily moving.
Cahit (Birol �nel) is angry, drunk, and out of control. In his 40s, he lives like a slob, works clearing empty bottles in a nightclub and spends his free time drinking, smoking and fucking. One night he rams his car head-on into a brick wall and ends up in a psychiatric clinic. It is at the clinic that he meets a suicidal young woman, Sibel (Sibel Kekelli), a 20- year-old who tried to slit her wrists as a way out of her claustrophobic home life. "
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