Heaven

This dreamy fable about coincidence, fate, and lack of control is at once moody and involving while at the same time, overt and pretentious. It's a retread of themes Kieslowski has already firmly and brilliantly presented while he was alive, and this takeover project simply makes one appreciate the brilliance of his THREE COLORS TRILOGY. The fine performances and Italian production design make this a worthwhile venture, and the stream of events make for a sensitive and intriguing morality tale in spite of it's shortcomings. The steady cam work is rather overbearing, but obviously Twyker had fun with it. Not as mesmerizing or as deep as it hoped to be.