Suchergebnisse
Suchergebnisse:
We continue our series on Wim Wenders with possibly his greatest masterpiece! Wings of Desire is one of cinema’s loveliest symphonies: A poignant fantasy and a tapestry of sounds and images (mixing color with black-and-white film) that forever made Wenders’s name synonymous with film art.
The film remains as soothing and esoteric as it was upon release, suffused with a sweet lyricality and lightness of touch despite its heavily philosophical outlook. Full Review | Original Score: 4 ...
Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds -- with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk -- that it might be possible ...
In WINGS OF DESIRE, director Wim Wenders' (Paris, Texas, Alice in the Cities) most metaphysical work, a guardian angel desires nothing more than to be human. Every day, Damiel (Bruno Ganz, The American Friend, Downfall) listens to the thoughts of mortals who play their lives out on the streets of West Berlin. He finds himself entranced by a trapeze artist (Solveig Dommartin, Until the End of ...
Wim Wenders West Germany, France, 1987. Angels walk among the downtrodden in this ethereal spiritual drama from Wim Wenders. Winner of the Best Director prize in Cannes, and featuring a tender, improvised performance from Peter Falk, Wings of Desire is a hypnotic philosophical meditation that finds divine order amid everyday chaos.
In WINGS OF DESIRE, director Wim Wenders' (Paris, Texas, Alice in the Cities) most metaphysical work, a guardian angel desires nothing more than to be human. Every day, Damiel (Bruno Ganz, The American Friend, Downfall) listens to the thoughts of mortals who play their lives out on the streets of West Berlin. He finds himself entranced by a trapeze artist (Solveig Dommartin, Until the End of ...
And yet, Wings of Desire is the film that offers Wenders’ most sustained, profound, and important meditation upon history. The film is haunted by another kind of ghost, by angels. By melancholy men and women with wings who hover over the material world and over the intermingled realms of memory and emotion. They pause to listen and offer gentle solace to the wounded and the frightened. They ...
