BEGINNINGS.(Head On)(Movie Review)

A film that starts with not one but two attempted suicides could never be accused of overdosing on the feel-good factor. Yet it would be a pity if the new German picture "Head On," which plays through March at the Angelika Film Center, were to be treated as no more than a pit stop for the aggressively downhearted. So how should the movie be sold? I have seen it hailed as a blenderful of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, and all three are indeed on brazen display, yet anybody in search of a roiling formlessness will have to look elsewhere. You could laud the writer and director, Fatih Akin, for laying bare the lives of Turkish Gastarbeiter in modern Germany, but that ...