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1987 |
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DRAMA
FANTASY
OVERRATED
FOREIGN
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France/ West Germany |
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C |
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130 |
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Two angels (Bruno Ganz, pictured, and Otto Sander) keep watch over Berlin and become involved in the lives of a poet (Curt Bois) , a film star (Peter Falk, playing himself) and a trapeze artist (Solveig Dommartin).
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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Wenders's most celebrated film is memorable for Henri Alekan's beautiful cinematography, but for little else. As usual in this overrated writer-director's films, there are glaring weaknesses in casting and narrative. A potentially interesting story is sabotaged by the stolid, uncharismatic non-acting of Solveig Dommartin (who we are supposed to believe would convince Bruno Ganz that he should give up immortality) and a plot which asks us to swallow the notion that Peter Falk is a fallen angel. The film won Wenders the Best Director prize at Cannes, and spawned a belated and inferior sequel, Faraway So Close (1993). Remade, Hollywood-style, as City of Angels (1998).
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, Otto Sander
