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Mood:
Atmospheric Contemplative Touching Gloomy Stylized
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Psychological Self Discovery Fall in Love Supernatural Romance Love and Romance Mind and Soul Redemption Impossible Love more...
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Drama Fantasy Romance Foreign Melodrama
Time/Period:
20th Century 80s World War 2
Place:
Germany
Audience:
Date Night
Praise:
Critically Acclaimed Masterpiece Cannes Festival Winner
Style:
Surreal
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Serious Fantastic Slow
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Partly B&W

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Wings of Desire, 1987

Starring: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Peter Falk

Directed by: Wim Wenders

Written by: Wim Wenders

Language: German, English, French, Turkish, Hebrew, Spanish

Country: West Germany, France

Runtime: 128 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:8.0

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The mood of Wings of Desire is contemplative, atmospheric, and touching. The plot centers around a supernatural romance, self discovery, and falling in love. It is a drama, foreign, and romance movie. Stylistically, Wings of Desire is surreal and is a melodrama. In approach, it is fantastical and serious. The pacing is slow. Wings of Desire is set in Germany. It happens during World War 2 and in the 1980s. Visually, it is partly black and white. Wings of Desire is known for being a Cannes festival winner, a masterpiece, and critically acclaimed. It is especially suggested for a date night.

Summary of Wings of Desire

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.

Details

Language:	German, English, French, Turkish, Hebrew, Spanish
Country:	West Germany, France
Release date:	29 April 1988
Runtime:	128 min
Awards:	Cannes

Awards

Wim Wenders for Best Director at the 1987 Cannes

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Bruno Ganz

as Damiel

Solveig Dommartin

as Marion

Otto Sander

as Cassiel

Peter Falk

as Der Filmstar

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Variety

Wim Wenders returns to Germany with a sublimely beautiful, deeply romantic film for our times. (Review of Original Release) Full Review

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by: Staff (Not credited)

The New York Times

Startlingly original at first, Wings of Desir' is in the end damagingly overloaded. The excesses of language, the ceaseless camera movement, the unyielding whimsy have the ultimate effect of wearing the audience down. (Review of Original Release) Full Review

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by: Elvis Mitchell

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Beautifully shot

I want to reach out and caress every camera shot, wrap it in a blanket and carry it around in my backpack and let it carry me through life. I want to believe again that I care about living. Do you believe that an angel would give up the divine to... Read and rate it

22.June.2009
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by: Laura
Laura rated this movie10/10Must See

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