What starts as an interesting psychological drama gradually derails into a shallow, third-rate melodrama. An utterly implausible story, riddled with (moral and visual) clichés, with the escape of the young couple by helicopter as its embarrassing low point. Admittedly, the camera-work is beautiful at its best moments. But even the images increasingly started to bored me, with its abundant use of filters and 'smooth' lighting, which the director probably mistakes for poetry. Even a pig stock is illuminated with a golden glow. There is a word for this: kitsch. Well suited for the Italian board of Tourism perhaps, or as an ad for a brand of tomato sauce in a ladies' magazine. Tom Tykwer can still opt for a different career.
Review of Heaven
