By Wim WendersOur Price: $24.95 Our Item Code: paris Postage Code: book1
VHS video tape
145 Minutes, Date: 1984
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captures the bizarre isolation of the Southwest. A man who does not speak stumbles into the tiny, desolate town of Terlingua, Texas. Who is he and how did he get here? There is not much action in this movie, but many small surprises. The figure who at first seems to be a ghost rediscovers who he is and what he is running away from. His "Paris" is an emotional battle to face his worst fears. German director Wim Wenders sees in the American desert a haunting, elemental emptiness that Americans themselves are afraid to acknowledge. Although hardly noticed in the US, this film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and it is still our favorite movie. -- Glenn Campbell
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Directed by Wim Wenders (BA)
Written by Sam Shepard
As a service to those of you who speak Italian, we gladly provide a review of the movie in that fine language.
Rarely in motion picture history does a film receive the acclaim that has been bestowed upon PARIS, TEXAS - a contemporary story of a man's journey, actual and psychological, toward the recovery of his past. It opens with a man named Travis (Harry Dean Stanton) who is wandering around in the Texas desert, mute and amnesiac, a battered human vulture. Long thought dead, his past is slowly disinterred, first by his brother (Dean Stockwell) and his sister-in-law (Aurore Clement), and then by Stanton himself, his young son, and his long-lost wife (Nastassja Kinski). As the story unfolds, we discover that this man must reassemble the pieces of his ruptured life like a detective solving a mystery.
Winner of the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
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