Friday, August 01, 2008

'Edge' tackles Turkish-German conflict | Philadelphia Daily News | 08/01/2008

"'Edge' tackles Turkish-German conflict

By WESLEY MORRIS

The Boston Globe
In just a couple of movies, 34-year-old Fatih Akin has become the most exciting of Europe's young directors, reinvigorating the melodrama with a furious kind of identity politics. Like 'Head-On,' his 2004 wrecking-ball romance, Akin's new 'The Edge of Heaven' is perched along the fault line of the current Turkish-German situation. And the more determined he is here to examine the chasm between the two sides, the wider and deeper the movie gets."

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