☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Wings of Desire (1988) -- W. Wenders
Probably the first Wim
Wenders film that I saw -- a poetic fantastical romantic story (with a much
longer black and white portion than I remembered) that has the good humor to
cast Peter Falk in a knowing role and treats our private thoughts, important or
trivial, as something to be treasured.
Probably this is due to the contributions of Peter Handke, the writer,
because Wenders went amazingly downhill after this film. Two angels watch over
Berlin just before the Wall came down.
One angel wants to know what it is like to be human, rather desperately.
Bruno Ganz is great as this angel. The
cinematography by Henri Alekan (who did Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast) is
great and so is the sound. Crime and the
City Solution and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds make appearances. I have the poster on my wall.
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