Fresh
Akin makes this a most intriguing, if roundabout, journey from despair to 'do something.'
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Head-On
You don't really know how much you can love...
2004 · 1h 57m · R
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Fatih Akin
Overview
With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Fresh
The power of Akin's film, which is considerably aided by the two lead performances ... comes from the spectacle of people developing feelings for each other even through numbing layers of mutual narcissism, self-loathing and raging terror of intimacy.
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
Fresh
Violent and sexy and funny and sad.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Fresh
A riveting love story that never flinches from the unsettling reality of a specific social issue or the universal joys that two people can bring to each other's lives, no matter how hard they try to bring agony to their own.
Ted Fry, Seattle Times
Fresh
A portrait of passionate, all-consuming love born out of desperation.
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
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