It is a romantic thriller film. Directed by Tom Tykwer. Starring Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi. Co-screen writer Krzysztof Kieslowski intended to be the first part of a trilogy ( the second being Hell & the third titled Purgatory) but Kieslowski died before he could complete the project.
The film is an international co-production among producers in Germany, France, Italy the US & the UK. The dialogues are in English & Italian.
The film is set in Turin, Italy. It opens with a prologue sequence showing the young Italian Carabinieri clerk Filippo learning to fly a helicopter using a flight simulator.
When he accidently crashes the virtual helicopter by ascending too dramatically, his instructor tells him, “In a real helicopter , you can’t just keep going up & up”, prompting Filippo to ask, “How high can I fly?”
He escapes in a helicopter flying high in the end. This sequence holds significance there.
Rotten Tomatoes rated it at 6.7 /10. ” the story is the weakest link in this gorgeous & well acted film”. Comparisons abound but Heaven is ‘more thoughtful, proceeds more deliberately than the mercurial haste’. It contains the same sort of defiant romanticism, in which a courageous woman tries to alter her fate by sheer willpower.
Planting a bomb to kill the enemy. But the plan backfires. It explodes in a lift killing four innocent people. She wants herself to be punished for her crime. Falling in love was never on the agenda. It happens.
He helps her escape out. But going out of Italy is not so easy. Escaping with the pursuers helicopter & flying high. Heaven!
The last few minutes drag. The tension is palpable. The couple is calm, We are not. A true thriller.
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