SummaryA 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)
Directed By:Fatih Akin
Written By:Fatih Akin
Head-On
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Generally Favorable
78
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Universal Acclaim
8.3
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Metascore
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97% Positive
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100
Not about crashing into walls or crashing into other people. It's about crashing into yourself and living to tell the tale.
88
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.
80
Vital and affecting romantic drama.
78
But for all the film's griminess and doom, bad behavior and bad luck, it's hope that engines Head-On.
75
The movie is 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.
70
Fatih Akin's surprisingly grisly feature spills more blood than both of Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill" films combined, which is strange when you consider that it's a love story.
60
Ünel and the debuting Kekilli are as impressive as Akin’s atmospheric snapshots of Hamburg and Istanbul.
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Universal Acclaim
97% Positive
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Aug 22, 2010
10
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 la Pared inicia como comedia de enredos, tiene ribetes de comedia romántica y continúa con una brutal serie de acontecimientos, tan sorpresivos como desarmantes en su cruda realidad
Production Company:
- ARTE
- Bavaria Film International
- Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM)
- Corazón International
- Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR)
- Panfilm
- Wüste Film
Release Date:Jan 21, 2005
Duration:2 h 1 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Raw, Powerful, Extraordinary... A Love Story of Surprisingly Epic Proportions!
Awards
European Film Awards
• 2 Wins & 7 Nominations
German Film Awards
• 5 Wins & 5 Nominations
Nuremberg Film Festival "Turkey-Germany"
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
