Wim Wenders
4 titles · european arthouse
Movement without destination. Wenders makes road films in which landscape and pop culture do the talking, and returns to watchers — angels, photographers, drifters — who observe more easily than they participate.
Signature
- Road structure; travel as the plot.
- American iconography viewed from a European distance.
- Observers and recorders as protagonists.
- Long takes with music foregrounded.
Perfect Days
Wings of Desire
Alice in the Cities
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