Wings of Desire
Wings of Desire is 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.
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Running Time
128 mins
Year
1987
Kanopy ID
1113523
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Comments (3)
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.