Head-On
Synopsis: A man in his forties and a twenty year old woman, both Turkish living in Germany, meet at a psychiatric clinic where they are treated after attempting suicide.
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Head-On tells the troubled love story of Cahit and Sibel, two German immigrants of Turkish descent. Cahit can’t overcome the grief over his wife’s death, he works a dead end job collecting empty bottles at a music club and spends his days drinking and doing drugs. Sibel lives with the constant pressure from her conservative Turkish family that don’t let her be who she wants to be. Both attempt suicide without success, Cahit by crashing his car into a wall, Sibel by slitting her wrists. When they meet at the psychiatric clinic where they receive counseling Sibel sees in Cahit the ticket to escape her oppressive family. She convinces him to marry her, knowing that her family will only give her to a Turkish man.
In spite of now being married, Cahit and Sibel continue living their own lives, he with his occasional visits to his hairdresser girlfriend, and she with her excessive dating habits, a lifestyle much easier to carry now that she is away from her family. But as it usually happens, eventually they will become interested in each other. Without giving much of the plot away, let’s just say that this complicated love story takes a few tragic turns and by the second half of the movie Sibel relocated to Turkey and Cahit arrives in Istanbul to find her.
The film paints a desperate picture of immigrant life, Cahit and Sibel are neither Turkish nor Germans, they do not find their place in the world. Birol Ünel and Sibel Kekilli are excellent in the leading roles, supported by a well chosen German and Turkish cast. Many of the themes presented in this movie are not appropriate for children, this film is for adults only.
©2008 by Miguel Grinberg
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