This time I am in total agreement with the critic (James Berardinelli).
A good film, very realistic, with great ambition and very good acting. Too bad it didn't live up to it's full potential, but it is still well worth the time. Even if it leaves much of what it starts unresolved, it does enough to make the viewer start to think about many things in life and that is the best a movie can hope to do.
I have to say I also found the unconventional ending to be excellent, where the father kicks out his son, leaves his wife, and is in a sense, reborn ( he can finally listen to his beloved jazz music in his whole house and sip his whiskey in peace). Parvez says in the final scene to Bettina that he has never felt so destroyed yet also so relieved... It must be true.
A good film, very realistic, with great ambition and very good acting. Too bad it didn't live up to it's full potential, but it is still well worth the time. Even if it leaves much of what it starts unresolved, it does enough to make the viewer start to think about many things in life and that is the best a movie can hope to do.
I have to say I also found the unconventional ending to be excellent, where the father kicks out his son, leaves his wife, and is in a sense, reborn ( he can finally listen to his beloved jazz music in his whole house and sip his whiskey in peace). Parvez says in the final scene to Bettina that he has never felt so destroyed yet also so relieved... It must be true.