Wings of Desire
One of cinema's loveliest city symphonies. Bruno Ganz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts--fears, hopes, 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 and 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.
Wenders won the award for Best DIrector and the film was nominated for the Palm d'Or at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.
Running Time
128 mins
Year
1987
Kanopy ID
1113523
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Comments (8)
Easily one of the best movies ever! Don't waste your time browsing for anything else if you haven't seen this yet... Just watch it! (Unless you're not one for artsy, avant-garde type films. Boo.)
This is visual poetry. The stark black and white photography was rich, but it had a melancholy feel to it. It shows the discomfort of these two angels. The camera gliding through the library truly made it feel like a god like presence. A true meditation on loneliness.
Wow
im sorry i did not look sufficiently into this viewing before inviting a lovely lovely man friend over
A symphony of life, death, childhood, memory, loss, love, and war. The story of Berlin, a city of ghosts and angels. A contemplation of eternity and the crackling, colourful spark of life. One of my all time favourites and cinematic poetry at its finest.
One of my all time favorite films. Poetic, as Sandrine says. Finding meaning in the moments and act of existence.
HORRIBLE FILM, THERE IS NO MEANING TO IT, JUST TWO HOURS OF PEOPLE RAMBLING ABOUTH NOTHING.
Wow... :( Good on you for watching it though. Too bad you missed the poetry of it all.