Wings of Desire (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray) PG-13
There are angels on the streets of Berlin.
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- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 7 minutes
- Video: Black & White / Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 3, 2009
- Originally Released: 1987
- Label: Criterion
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Peter Falk & Bruno Ganz | |
Performer: | Hans Martin Stier | |
Featured: | Nick Cave & Crime and the City Solution | |
Directed by | Wim Wenders | |
Edited by | Peter Przygodda | |
Screenwriting by | Wim Wenders & Peter Handke | |
Composition by | Jürgen Knieper & Jurgen Kneiper | |
Produced by | Wim Wenders & Anatole Daumon | |
Director of Photography: | Henri Alekan |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1987 -
Best Director: Wim Wenders
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: A --
The film's pacing and ethereal camera movements only help to magnify the angelic tranquility...Wenders is challenging us to rethink how we view our place in the world.
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Cinema Axis
One of the few truly great movies to come out of the '80s.
Hollywood Reporter
Rating: 5/5 --
I love that search for what makes a human.
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At the Movies (Australia)
...[WINGS OF DESIRE] has a loveliness of conception that, for a time, keeps it as feathery as an angel's wings....Wender's mpst ambitous effort yet, and [it] certainly radiates immense promise...
New York Times
It is a complex work of art that can only grow in stature from repeated viewings.
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Spectrum Culture
...The film evokes a mood of reverie, elegy and meditation....You're seduced into the spell of this movie....CITY OF ANGELS is a skillful romantic comedy...
Chicago Sun-Times
Few films are so rich, so intriguing, or so ambitious.
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Time Out
Product Description:
The sky over Wenders's war-scarred Berlin is full of gentle angels wearing trench coats who listen to the tortured thoughts of mortals and try to comfort them. One wishes to become mortal after falling in love with a beautiful trapeze artist. Peter Falk, as himself, assists in the transformation by explaining the simple joys of a human experience, such as the sublime combination of coffee and cigarettes. The result is a film that is simultaneously sentimental and cerebral.
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WINGS OF DESIRE (Der Himmel uber Berlin) is one of cinema's loveliest city symphonies. Bruno Gatz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts - fears, hopes, and dreams - of all the people living below. But when he falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, he is willing to give up his immortality to come back to earth to be with her. Made not long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, this stunning tapestry of sounds and images, shot in black and white and color by the legendary Henri Alekan, is movie poetry. And it forever made the name Wim Wenders synonymous with film art.
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