Critical Reception
Though comparisons abound to Kieślowski's earlier films, Roger Ebert also sees a similarity to Tykwer's Run Lola Run and The Princess and the Warrior. Though Heaven is "more thoughtful, proceeds more deliberately, than the mercurial haste" of Tykwer's films, "it contains the same sort of defiant romanticism, in which a courageous woman tries to alter her fate by sheer willpower."
Alex Grant finds the film to be "an hommage to Italian painters of the C16th and C17th. European architecture has seldom played such a huge role in defining character and human interaction as Tykwer allows it to do here. Beings dwarfed and trapped by spaces both interior and exterior."
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