Heaven 2002

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 97 min

genre: thriller

theme: romantic thriller

director: Tom Tykwer

Score: 6 / 10

Heaven is a 2002 romantic thriller film directed by Tom Tykwer, starring Cate Blanchett and Giovanni Ribisi. Co-screenwriter Krzysztof Kieślowski intended for it to be the first part of a trilogy (the second being Hell and the third titled Purgatory), but Kieślowski died before he could complete the project. The film is an international co-production among producers based in Germany, France, Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The dialogue is in Italian and English.

Plot

The film is set in Turin, Italy. It opens with a prologue sequence showing the young Italian Carabinieri clerk Filippo (Ribisi) learning to fly a helicopter using a flight simulator. When he accidentally crashes the virtual helicopter by ascending too dramatically, his instructor tells him, "In a real helicopter, you can't just keep going up and up", prompting Filippo to ask, "How high can I fly?"

Cast

More details

author	Krzysztof Kieślowski Krzysztof Piesiewicz
contentLocation	Montepulciano Turin
director	Tom Tykwer
editor	Mathilde Bonnefoy
events	assassination frontier justice organized crime revenge
genre	crime drama thriller
keywords	arrest beg carabinieri discover drug lord drug ring english teacher flight simulator helicopter hide kill learning to fly turin italy
musicBy	Arvo Pärt
nomination	European Film Award for Best Cinematographer European Film Award for Best Screenwriter
producer	Anthony Minghella Frédérique Dumas Maria Kopf Stefan Arndt William Horberg
publisher	Buena Vista International Miramax Films TFM Distribution X Verleih AG
theme	romantic drama romantic thriller terrorism