Heaven (DVD)

Heaven Directed by Tom Tykwer, the german director of Run Lola Run and scripted by the famous Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski, this on paper should be a brilliant film. The script was written by Kieslowski to be directed by himself as part of a three part trilogy, Heaven, Hell and Purgatory, unfortunately he never had the chance to see this through. Cate Blanchett plays Philippa, a British School teacher in Italy devastated by her husband's death from a drug overdose who becomes a terrorist, determined to blow up an Italian businessman she believes is dealing drugs to kids and killed her husband. She is caught by the police and learns that her bomb ...

Tom Tykwer directs this German movie, which is part-thriller, and part-romance, and part mission to resurrect a great director. An unfinished script written by Krzystof Kieslowski (the Three Colours series; Double Life of Veronique) was used. Kieslowski died in 1996, and I had thought he?d decided never to direct again, so this script was no doubt never intended to be made into a movie, but these things happen? Clearly ?Heaven? was always going to be nearer to art-house than Hollywood. Cate Blanchett plays Philippa, a bit of a revolutionary. She?s not pleased when the police don?t try very hard to find the killer of her husband, who ...

I said after seeing The Princess and the Warrior that director Tom Tykwer would be a name to look out for, and so I made sure to see this, his next film. In a departure for him, he directs not from his own script but from one written by famed Polish writer/director Krzysztof Kieslowski (and his regular writing partner Krzysztof Piesiewicz), who died before he could make it. This is also Tykwer's first film not set in Germany, instead being filmed in Italy, with dialogue in a mixture of Italian and English, making this a truly international film. After a slightly surreal opening involving a helicopter simulator, the film becomes the story of an English ...