Heaven's Tears

I watched this movie because it is the first movie I have seen on the "Love" channel rated "Mature". The "very graphic sex scenes" are actually quite mild for a rating of "Mature"; it probably would get a "R" in the movie theaters, at least for the sex scenes.

The verbal violence is about as strong as you will ever see. I saw this movie on the "Love" channel and I saw sex, hatred and jealousy yet I saw no love. I am not complaining about the sex but the hatred and jealousy was strong and I think very well portrayed (as in acting), to the extent that it can make you sick of the world to allow such atrocities to occur. The movie does seem to show how strong some people react with jealousy to sex.

I do agree that the age of the young woman becoming sexually involved is controversial. If I am doing my arithmetic correctly, the actress, Beata Pozniak, was much older than the character she was playing, but she sure looks young. She is sure very pretty too.

I chose to watch this film because I am a Stephen Nichols fan. Unfortunately, I am unhappy with Mr. Nichols' choice to do this movie. The film was slow, badly acted, and included some very graphic sex scenes of Mr. Nichols' character with a very young woman. Watch at your own peril!

*Disclaimer: I purchased this movie for the soul purpose of seeing Stephen Nichols naked.

So, I wasn't all that interested in the actual storyline or other characters, beyond Stephen's character and the girl with whom he gets naked. And I was not disappointed in that, at all. His body is fantastic. I got to see his "O" face, which was really sexy. I got to see him naked and, well, thrusting. And it was all really good. The only negative emotion I had watching these scenes was insane jealousy towards the actress who got to be naked underneath him (and on top of him). I'm assuming the sex was simulated, but that's okay. They both sold it, and I'd let Stephen simulate sex with me any day. And if it wasn't simulated, I'm even more jealous.

People seem to be making a big deal out of the fact that the girl looked so young, but I believe that was the point of the movie. Young Jewish girl and older German soldier fall in love. I haven't found much info on the actress, Lisha Snelgrove, but I'm assuming everyone did their homework and she was at least 18. Her speaking parts could have been better acted, but she sold the sex scenes. And who wouldn't with Stephen naked on top of you? I could have done without the whacked out incest-crazed sister character, but at one point I found myself really feeling for her. I'd be going a bit crazy if that man was my brother too. The Nazi father character was a little too much for me. I fast forwarded through the majority of those scenes. If I'm being completely honest, I fast forwarded through the majority of the scenes that Stephen wasn't in. I'm not quite sure I even remember how the movie ended.

But, Stephen's overall acting was fantastic, in my opinion. The dialogue wasn't the greatest, but he delivered with what he had to work with. I was impressed, even when he was fully clothed. His eyes are beautiful. He expresses more with a look than some actors can with words. I highly recommend this movie for anyone who is hot for Stephen Nichols. If you're not hot for him, and you're just looking for a great movie...you may want to skip it.

Heaven's Tears is close to the worst film I've ever seen. The plot is so ludicrous and implausible, it's incomprehensible. A soldier in the Nazi army during Hitler's regime, whose father is in the upper ranks of the Third Reich, is driving in the country one afternoon when he clips the bicycle of a teenage girl who appears suddenly before he can stop. The girl is knocked off her bicycle and the officer stops to attend to her. The girl is not seriously hurt. She's also beautiful, and the officer is instantly smitten. The girl also turns out to be Jewish, which, needless to say, is more than a minor inconvenience for the young couple. True love is not to be deterred, however, and the Nazi and the Jewish girl set out to persuade their families to accept their unlikely match, as well as their respective communities that each is wrong about the other. Where is Hank Williams, Jr., when you need him?

It gets worse from there, as well as more imbecilic a plot as the story progresses (not to mention seriously offensive). It defies imagination that someone fancying himself a writer could sell this script to a film studio, and that any producer would consider making it a movie. The film was made in The Netherlands, no doubt because no studio in the US would touch this idiotic piece of trash with a pole of any length, which actually restores a drop of respect to my regard for Hollywood.  Even as an "it's-so-bad-it's-hilarious" diversion, I could not stomach watching it to the end. Ed Wood himself never crafted as nonsensical a stink bomb as this. Zero stars.

This film is nicely done. The cinematography is lovely, the locations shot in Czech Republic beautiful. A story of forbidden attraction due to age and race during what was very dangerous times as the Nazi protectorate took over the country, a time few can understand or relate to now. But life then was so different then and often romances escalated with a sense of urgency with no guarantees of tomorrow. A small film but well done.