Heavenly Pairings

Tykwer does Kieslowski

Comments (0) By Grahm Robinson Wednesday, Oct 2 2002
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Still, the message remains discernible: Heaven has often been construed as a place for zealots and outcasts, the reward awaiting those whose faith sets them apart from the prevailing culture. Along with Philippa and Filippo's metamorphosis into figures from a Bosch painting, their appearance also suggests the uniform dress of modern-day members of a sacred cult. And although there's little in the way of explicitly Christian symbolism, Heaven -- in a manner that some will find unbearably pretentious, but which Tykwer executes with skill and sincerity -- manages to give his protagonists the kind of happy ending that, for a certain kind of religious imagination, is literally to die for.

HEAVEN | Directed by TOM TYKWER | Written by KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI and KRZYSZTOF PIESIEWICZ | Released by Miramax | At the Grove, Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex

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