Wings of Desire
17 ratings since posting on Thursday, August 5, 2004
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 Good movie. Like all of Wim Wenders films it's so looooooooooong. I am glad I got it on tape -Able to take a pee break. - Unsubscribed , posted 06/04/06 |
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this film shows the perspective of beings that relate to humans from higher levels. it allows any viewer to experience the wonders of life in a poetic, deeply connected, beyond beautiful way that brings me back to feeling why life is so incredible in all of it's myriad forms and emotions and paradoxical experiences. an angel wishes only to drop his wings and surrender to the passion he feels for the woman he loves in her dreams....... romantic, sorrowful, glorious. black and white and color, english french and german, angelic and human. go into to this place- and retrieve your eyes of a child who witnesses the presence of those who see everything............with compassion and unconditional love. - Aakasha , posted 04/07/06 |
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with the wisdom and innocence of childhod we soar through the souls of Berlin. The circus #*sigh*# I would fall asleeep in the movie theatre and listen to it, (I had a friend who worked the door at a movie theatre and I woul dcome to see it and fall asleep and wake up and go outside into the waking world and smoke cigarettes feeling my spine as I walked through the streets so grateful I was incarnated with the ability to dream. please see it. - Paradox , posted 04/07/06 |
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i really love both of these movies. the first and the sequel Far Away So Close. i think they both give a unique insight and are very thought provocing as well as having a bit of feel good humor. the only people that i can think of who wouldn't like these movies, are the one's who can't be bothered by having to read subtiles! really a MUST see! - ★Wednesdey★ , posted 10/29/05 |
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wim is so so... american wank wank. and his ending are always crap krap werner herzog is truth of realism through the surr. try out: stroyzek. woyzeck. heart of glass. even dwarves started small. and his documentries are beautiful. Rainer Werner Fassbinder is revaltions. ali:fear eats the soul. beware of a holy whore. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. Satan's Brew - Unsubscribed , posted 06/21/05 |
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I also liked City Of Angels too . Both made me cry ! - ♥Tantrabella♥ , posted 05/18/05 |
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The images are lovely, but it dragged interminably, the ending felt slapped together and artificial (I understand it was improvised because they couldn't figure out how to conclude it satisfactorially, much like the very overrated Lost in Translation). I am a Wim Wenders fan, generally, but this is his worst film, perhaps because he really was so taken with the idea. It could have done with better editing and a faster directorial pace. Not to mention some likeable characters with a little depth. A good effort, but it doesn't really ever live or breathe. - leslie , posted 03/19/05 |
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This film is long - but poetic and well done! Wim's best (just a notch above Paris, Texas!). Worth it if your into arthouse films... - Christopher , posted 01/30/05 |
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Excellent film... I particularly love the scene where Nick Cave is playing in the club.....And Peter Falk is wonderful as an angel who has become human. Hard to believe they remade this into the ultra-sappy CITY OF ANGELS. - Darren , posted 01/11/05 |
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Some of the most gorgeous B&W cinematography I'd seen in years (and still pretty much unmatched). The story of an angel finding love so irresistable he has to join the mortal world sounds so likely to be bad, and yet director Wim Wenders takes the basic premise as a springboard into a huge pool of ideas. The two angels having a discussion of what it would be like to have to guess, rather than always knowing. Or to be able to lie "through the teeth," with a knowing grin. Or the simple pleasure of taking ones shoes off at the end of a long hard day, and spread your toes out under the table. Three other story lines, the beautiful acrobat that one of the angels finds irresistable, the old storyteller in the library, and the actor (Peter Falk, playing himself) in a WWII movie, touching on the holocaust, acting, and simple humanity, all of these interconnect. Bruno Ganz (as the angel Damiel) is one of my favorite actors, seriously underused in the US. He has such a warmth about him, it's easy to see why he was popular (briefly) in the ninties. - Sten , posted 12/21/04 |
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The shots read like memories, not moving pictures. Has the feel of classic film noir and G W Pabst silents. - Anna , posted 08/13/04 |
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The sky over Wenders' war-scarred Berlin is full of gentle, trenchcoated angels who listen to the tortured thoughts of mortals and try to comfort them. One, Damiel (Bruno Ganz), wishes to become mortal after falling in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, Marion (Solveig Dommartin). 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. Told from the angel's point of view, the film is shot in black and white, blossoming into color only when the angels perceive the realities of humankind. Ultimately, Damiel determines that he must experience humanity in full, and breaks through in to the real world to pursue a life with Marion. A hugely acclaimed and multi-award winning movie including Best Director for Wenders at Cannes 1987. - Kai , posted 08/05/04 |
