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- Head-On received positive reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 91%, based on 88 reviews, with an average rating of 7.35/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "A raw, provocative drama about star-crossed love and the lives of immigrants caught between the traditional and modern."
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Feb 12, 2004 · Head-On is an example of a particularly well-trodden Hollywood premise (a mismatched couple in a marriage of convenience legitimately falling in love) and making it a legitimate drama ...
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Mar 11, 2004 · With Birol Ünel, Güven Kiraç, Zarah Jane McKenzie, Stefan Gebelhoff. With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.
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- Drama, Romance
- Fatih Akin
- 2004-03-11
Winner of a Golden Bear and a slew of awards at the European Film Awards in the early noughties, Head-on is named after the suicide attempt of Cahit Tomruk (played by the late Birol Ünel), a Turkish-born German in his mid-40s. At the psychiatric clinic where he is treated, he meets the equally damaged Sibel Güner who is also of Turkish descent.
- Adam Bousdoukos
- Fatih Akin
94 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 8/10. Bitter, Sad, Heavy, Unpleasant But Also Original and Realistic Non-Hollywoodian Love Story. claudio_carvalho 17 January 2006.
Head-On received positive reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 91%, based on 88 reviews, with an average rating of 7.35/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "A raw, provocative drama about star-crossed love and the lives of immigrants caught between the traditional and modern."
The movie is very dark, graphic and depressingly nihilistic, but also honest and heartbreaking. It also benefits from an excellent main performance and an interesting glimpse into the Greek ...
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- Drama, LGBTQ+
Head On is an amazing film. Its beauty and treasures lie in not judging the journey taken in the film but opening up to the experiences of a young man lost and hidden. Its not a bright, gay film but rather a fiery drama which doesn't offer answers but depicts a painful truth which many would prefer to disregard.