Der Himmel Über Berlin (1987) (aka Wings Of Desire)
Wim Wenders
Germany
“When the child was a child, it didn’t know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one…“
Wings of Desire (1987) takes off with a dedication to cinema’s three great stalwarts – Truffaut, Ozu and Tarkovsky. Indeed, elements of all the three directors’ works are present in the film. However, Wim Wenders’ decidedly mood piece, released months after the Tarkovsky’s demise…Read More
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August 8, 2009 at 6:26 pm
[...] End is perhaps the kind of vision that Damiel (Bruno Ganz) saw in the train in Berlin in Wings of Desire (1987), considering the voyeuristic nature of the camerawork in this film. There are also a few [...]