Head-On

Name: Head-On
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: January 21, 2005
Duration: 121 min
Rating: 78
Cast: Birol Ünel, Sibel Kekilli

2005

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: January 21, 2005 | R

Starring: Birol Ünel, Sibel Kekilli

Summary: A marriage of convenience in Hamburg between two troubled Turks changes both their lives in this fine, gritty, contemporary love story. Director Fatih Akin dives deep into Turkish culture and explores the slippery slope of identity and cultural pride faced by Turks who either move to or are born in Germany. (Strand Releasing)

Director: Fatih Akin

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 121 min

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Wesley Morris

Not about crashing into walls or crashing into other people. It's about crashing into yourself and living to tell the tale. Read full review

Michael Sragow

The love that heals and the love that kills are one and the same in the exhilarating Head-On, Fatih Akin's overgrown dead-end-kid romance for live-wire adults. Read full review

Ann Hornaday

Has its share of surprises, especially in the performances of its two main players. Read full review

Kimberley Jones

But for all the film's griminess and doom, bad behavior and bad luck, it's hope that engines Head-On. Read full review

Marc Mohan

Intense, well-acted love story. Read full review

Carla Meyer

Sexy and intoxicating. Read full review

Empire David Parkinson

Ünel and the debuting Kekilli are as impressive as Akin’s atmospheric snapshots of Hamburg and Istanbul. Read full review

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Diezmartinez

Aug 22, 2010

Un inclasificable melodrama sobre un turco, un vago sin oficio ni beneficio, que se casa con una desequilibrada y suicida mujer turca, con el fin de que ella gane su independencia y abandone el conservador hogar familiar. Ambientada en Alemania y con un seco desenlace en Estambul, Contra laUn inclasificable melodrama sobre un turco, un vago sin oficio ni beneficio, que se casa con una desequilibrada y suicida mujer turca, con el fin de que ella gane su independencia y abandone el conservador hogar familiar. Ambientada en Alemania y con un seco desenlace en Estambul, Contra la Pared inicia como comedia de enredos, tiene ribetes de comedia romÃ¡ntica y continÃºa con una brutal serie de acontecimientos, tan sorpresivos como desarmantes en su cruda realidad… Expand

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FrankO

Jun 13, 2009

This is a strange film but I love movies that are off-beat, off kilter a bit. Akin does a great job of creating sympathetic characters but I wouldn't want to be in their shoes. I like being the observer in this film, watching Cahit and Sibel learn to be with each other, with all its This is a strange film but I love movies that are off-beat, off kilter a bit. Akin does a great job of creating sympathetic characters but I wouldn't want to be in their shoes. I like being the observer in this film, watching Cahit and Sibel learn to be with each other, with all its pluses and minuses. Not a film just for anyone.… Expand

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HarkanwarA.

Sep 15, 2007

Excellent love-sex-hate drama.

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