THE EDGE OF HEAVEN(15)

Wed 3 Sep/6 & 8.15pm/£4.50 (£3.50)

Germany/Turkey/Italy 2007 121 mins. Dir: Fatih Akin. With Nurgül Yesilcay, Baki Davrak, Hanna Schygulla.

An intriguing, complex, beautifully acted and directed portrayal of a mother and daughter’s estrangement, partly a realist drama of elaborate coincidences, near-misses and near-hits, and partly an almost dreamlike meditation with visual symmetries and narrative rhymes. The Edge of Heaven ties together disparate characters in a story of migration between Turkey and Germany, of multiculturalism and globalisation.