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Head-On
Directed by
Fatih Akin
R
2004
1h 57m
Drama
,
Romance
7.8
91%
93%
7.5
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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.
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Where to Watch Head-On
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Cast of Head-On
Sibel Kekilli
Sibel Güner
Birol Ünel
Cahit Tomruk
Güven Kıraç
Seref
Meltem Cumbul
Selma
Adam Bousdoukos
Barmann
Mehmet Kurtuluş
Barmann Istanbul / Producer
Stefan Gebelhoff
Nico
Catrin Striebeck
Maren
Demir Gökgöl
Yunus Güner
Cem Akin
Yilmaz Güner
Aysel İşcan
Birsen Güner
Orhan Güner
Bus Driver
Hermann Lause
Dr. Schiller
Selim Erdoğan
Taxi Driver
Tim Seyfi
Bavarian Taxi Driver
İdil Üner
Musician
Francesco Fiannaca
Man at the Counter
Mona Mur
Zoe Bar Regular Customer
Ralph Misske
Patient
Philipp Baltus
Patient
Head-On Ratings & Reviews
Newsweek
David Ansen
That this marriage of convenience between two cultural misfits will eventually lead to love may sound like a contrivance, but that's not at all the way it plays. Akin's raw, powerful, multileveled movie takes us places we never expected to go.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
Ultimately more provocative than insightful.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
There is an addictive quality to Akin's bizarre but heartrending film ...
Seattle Times
Ted Fry
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.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
By the time the film concludes, you will likely feel better for having gone the distance, for having faced all this head-on.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jeff Strickler
This is a gritty drama about self-destruction. On a basic level, its title refers to an early scene in which a man floors his car and plows into a brick wall. In a more general sense, it reflects the protagonists' fatalistic approach to life.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
... Well and fearlessly acted, and the writer-director (Fatih Akin) is determined to follow her story to a logical and believable conclusion, rather than letting everyone off the hook with a conventional ending.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
It's an arresting new work by an obviously gifted and commanding moviemaker.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
This is not just pliable filmmaking; it is an exercise in worldliness, in a feel for the cracks and warps of circumstance, which is all the more startling when you learn that the director is thirty-one.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Head On understands the tension between wanting to have nothing to do with the place from which you came and yet still, deep in your heart, somehow yearning for it.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
This is a film experience that stays in the mind.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
A major artistic breakthrough.
Houston Chronicle
Eric Harrison
Akin calls this his most personal movie. Every frame bristles with authenticity and honest emotion. He's the real thing. His movie is stunning.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
Where too many films depict redemption as a divine right, Head-On has the courage to track a process that generally makes for rough traveling.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
No matter what is going on in the story, these star-crossed lovers are always fascinating to watch.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
They might be marginal, they might misfits, but we actually care about those two crazy kids.
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
Akin lays on too much nastiness and too many false endings, but the film succeeds anyway, fueled by the idea that love can restore a soul even if it can't always conquer all.
Slate
David Edelstein
Head-On doesn't sound like a lot of fun, but it keeps you on edge, laughing nervously, appalled and, against all odds, entertained.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Despite all its roiling melodrama, Head-On has its moments of sharply observed humor.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Impeccably made, uncompromising in its implacable vision of the deranging power of love, sex and controlled substances, this savage and staggering film knows how to take our breath away.
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