The Edge of Heaven (2008)

Beautifully made and extremely effective movie about familiar subjects -- falling headlong in love, prostitution, political demonstrations, death -- in settings unfamiliar to me (Turkey and Germany). Each of the three chapters of the movie were effective and haunting on their own.

What I didn't like was the near-misses, e.g. we'd see a mother who is searching for her daughter going one way while the daughter in search of her mother is going the other -- if they'd only look the right way they'd see... There were quite a few of these tortured twists and they began to feel silly after a while. For such a powerful story to use gimmicks in the telling is unnecessary and distracting.

B