Five Minutes of Heaven One-Sheet

I recently saw Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Five Minutes of Heaven at the Sydney Film Festival and enjoyed it enormously (see?). Splitting its run-time between the build up to a shocking act of real-life violence and a fictional cogitation on what might unfold should its perpetrator and the witness brother of his victim again come face-to-face some thirty-three years later, it stands as one of my favourite new releases I’ve yet seen this year — it’s involving, funny and brilliantly scripted, as well as packing no shortage of emotional wallop. Now, Trailer Addict has turned up the film’s first poster, which can be enlarged below:



Terribly exciting? Perhaps not, but it tells all you need to know: on the one hand, Liam Neeson; the other, James Nesbitt...

Five Minutes of Heaven is yet to set an Australian release.