Heaven (2002)

Here's another film that seems to have fallen through the floorboards and might well have perished there if it didn't have a rather strange combination of appealing elements.  Not quite a europudding despite being directed by German Tom Tykwer and being based on a screenplay by the late, great Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski, it stars Australian Cate Blanchett playing an Englishwoman in Rome against American Giovanni Ribisi playing an Italian, and the bulk of the dialogue is in Italian from a largely Italian cast.  Very weird.  She has attempted to blow up a drug lord responsible for the death of her husband and some students, but manages instead to kill four innocent bystanders including two children.  When arrested she insists on her right to testify in English, and Ribisi (who looks young enough to be her son) acts as her interpreter, falls in love with her, and engineers her escape.  Pitched somewhere between an arthouse exercise and a full-blown Hollywood thriller, the film suffers from this dual personality, yet still manages to hold one's attention despite its many illogicalities.  By the end, one wonders just why it was ever made, but if this was any criterion, the vast majority of movies would probably never see the light of day!