Films set in Tuscany | Heaven (Tom Tykwer, 2002)

Heaven (Tom Tykwer, 2002)

Heaven is a 2002 romantic thriller film directed by Tom Tykwer, starring Cate Blanchett and Giovanni Ribisi. Co-screenwriter Krzysztof Kie?lowski intended for it to be the first part of a trilogy (the second being Hell and the third titled Purgatory), but Kie?lowski died before he could complete the project.
In Turin, four innocent people are victims of a bomb attack. An English teacher named Philippa is taken into custody - she does not resist her arrest. Philippa is, nevertheless, utterly destroyed by what has occurred, because the bomb was intended for someone else altogether, namely a drug dealer responsible for the death of her husband as well as the deaths of many of her students.

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?" The film then cuts to Phillipa (Blanchett), who is preparing to plant a bomb in the downtown office of a high-ranking businessman. Although everything goes according to her plan, the garbage bin in which she places the bomb is emptied by a cleaner immediately after she leaves and later explodes in an elevator, killing four people. Philippa is tracked down by the Carabinieri, arrested, and brought to the station where Filippo works. When she is questioned, she reveals that she is an English teacher at a local school where several students have recently died of drug-related causes. Discovering that they had all been supplied by the same local cartel, she had contacted the Carabinieri with the names of the drug ring leaders, begging them to intervene, but was repeatedly ignored. At her wits' end, she decided to kill the leader of the cartel, the businessman whose office she targeted. In the process of her interrogation, Filippo (who is translating her confession for his superiors) falls in love with Philippa and helps her escape from Carabinieri custody. After she kills the drug lord who was her original target, the pair become fugitives from the law and flee to the countryside, where they eventually find refuge with one of Philippa's friends and finally consummate their relationship. When the authorities raid the house where they are hiding, the fugitives steal a Carabinieri helicopter parked on the front lawn and escape by air. The officers on the ground fire repeatedly at them, to no avail, as the craft climbs higher and higher and finally disappears. Cast Cate Blanchett... Philippa Giovanni Ribisi... Filippo Remo Girone... The Father Stefania Rocca... Regina Alessandro Sperduti... Ariel Soundtracks Spiegel im Spiegel Composed by Arvo Pärt Performed by Vladimir Spivakov (violin), Sergej Bezrodny (piano) Locations Heaven was shot in Montepulciano, (Siena, Tuscany), (Turin, Piedmont) and Bottrop (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) among other places.		Montepulciano, Palazzo Municipale
The part of the movie "Heaven" (2002) set in Montepulciano, Tuscany The subtle choice of locations governs the tone of the film, from the mysterious attic where the fugitives enjoy a charmed sanctuary, to the noble church of San Biaggio in Montepulciano where Filippo’s father bids farewell to his son. This scene brings the main characters to the Val d'Orcia by train.

The train shown when Filippo and Philippa arrive in Tuscany


Heaven Movie Trailer





Piazza Grande, Montepulciano

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Bagno Vignoni	Bagno San Filippo	Villa Geggiano
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Podere Santa Pia	Podere Santa Pia, giardino	San Qurico d'Orcia


Siena was the background for Palio, a gripping documentary by female director and Tuscan native Cosima Spender, about the Palio in Siena.	Siena, Duomo	Prato was the venue for Giuseppe Bertolucci's Berlinguer ti voglio Bene, where Roberto Benigni made his debut.



Crete Senesi, surroundings of Podere Santa Pia

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