RIGA IFF: Parīze, Teksasa

Wim Wenders
Paris, Texas
Paris, Texas
FR, US, BRD
1984, 147', en
Recommended for ages 16+ If a man is a lonely highway , which does not know its beginning, but knows its cities? Travis, who is stingy with words, drives forward on the asphalt - he wants to restore relations with his son, who lives with his brother in Los Angeles, and his missing wife, Jane. Dust covers his coat, shirt collar and boots, but he is ready to bring his lost family back together. Travis' path of forgiveness grips us all the more because the characters know more than the viewer: this path leads from nowhere to nowhere. The gold standard of the road movie subgenre, which continues to glow in red neon and the dusty glow of the Texas sun. Early in his career, Wenders, fascinated by American mythology and filmmaking traditions, comes of age in this drama, visually enveloping (cinematographer Robbie Miller) scrolling actor-playwright Sam Shepard's script about the meaning of change, words and silence. In perhaps the most significant stop of his filmography, the filigree character and Lynch favorite actor Harry Dean Stanton, whose face is a statewide landscape in itself, and the magnetizing Nastasya Kinski, whose image in a pink angora sweater has become a whole movie quote, meet. They are some of the human landscapes in the Great Landscape.

Recommended age: 16+
Screen language: English
Subtitle language: Latvian
Synonymous translation: none
Session duration: 147 min
Place for a wheelchair: yes

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