
STORY
The raw emotions, deadly choices and mysterious impulses
that surround the search for a state of grace come to the fore in HEAVEN,
the last film written by the late master filmmaker Krysztof Kieslowski
and writing partner Kryzsztof Piesiewicz (the makers of "Blue,"
"White" and "Red"). Tom Tykwer ("Run Lola
Run," "Winter Sleepers," "The Princess and the Warrior")
directs, bringing his intense visual energy to the taut, lyrical, multi-layered
story of an ordinary woman who takes divine justice into her own hands.
Academy Award nominee Cate Blanchett ("Elizabeth,"
"The Talented Mr. Ripley") stars as Philippa, a British teacher
living in Turin, Italy, who has seen many friends, including her husband,
fall victim to drug overdoses. Philippa has repeatedly contacted the police
with information about Turins biggest drug dealer but, complicit
in his dealings, they have completely ignored her. So Philippa decides
to dole out her own form of justice with a home-made bomb setting
her off on a journey that moves through retribution and redemption, innocence
and crime, hope and desire as she goes from young widow to fugitive on
the run.
When Philippas plans go horrifically wrong,
and she is taken into custody, she feels she has little left to live for
. . . until she meets Filippo (Giovanni Ribisi), a young police
officer. Deeply drawn to Philippa, Filippo becomes her mysterious soulmate
and unexpected partner on the lam, as both search for a brief, radiant
idyll in a corrupt world. This is a luminous and haunting love story layered,
in the tradition of Kieslowski, over a probing exploration of the modern
world and its moral choices.
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