Paris, Texas
1984
Winner of the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984, Wim Wenders's PARIS, TEXAS tells the haunting story of an amnesiac (Harry Dean Stanton) and his struggle to rebuild his shattered life. Featuring a story by Sam Shepard and a renowned score by Ry Cooder, the film also stars Nastassja Kinski and Dean Stockwell. Read more
| Starring | Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Harry Dean Stanton, Aurore Clement |
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| Director | Wim Wenders |
| Genres | Documentary, Drama |
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Paris, Texas
Winner of the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984, Wim Wenders's PARIS, TEXAS tells the haunting story of an amnesiac (Harry Dean Stanton) and his struggle to rebuild his shattered life. Featuring a story by Sam Shepard and a renowned score by Ry Cooder, the film also stars Nastassja Kinski and Dean Stockwell.
| Starring | Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Harry Dean Stanton, Aurore Clement, Hunter Carson, Bernhard Wicki, Nastassja Kiniski, Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Udo Kier, Solveig Dommartin, Peter Falk, Ronee Blakley, Lisa Kreuzer, Otto Sander, Rudiger Vogler, Hans Christian Blech, Rudiger Vo |
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| Director | Wim Wenders |
| Studio | ANCHOR BAY HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 19 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Documentary, Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 14 Jul 2008 Production year: 1984 |
| Format | DVD |
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Character actor Harry Dean Stanton enjoys a rare leading role in German director Wim Wenders's emotionally charged road movie, based on a story by American playwright Sam Shepard. The odyssey begins as restless drifter Travis Anderson (Stanton) walks out of the desert after a four-year absence and is reunited with his small son (Hunter Carson), who's being cared for by Travis's brother (Dean Stockwell). Travis then sets out to reclaim his family life by seeking out his estranged wife and the boy's mother (Nastassja Kinski), now a peep-show stripper. Ry Cooder's haunting guitar score gives the film an immediacy that makes it seems as though it's being ad-libbed — a heart-rending confrontation between Stanton and Kinski does, indeed, sound as though it's being made up on the spot — while Wenders brings a refreshing outsider's eye to bear on this metaphor about rootless America.
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"...PARIS, TEXAS is refined arthouse cinema...It's indeed a beautiful film....Some images are positively breathtaking..."
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12 out of 14 people found this review helpful
Brilliantly evocative piece of cinema
Wim Wenders as a European looking in on America captures the essence of it that captivates the imagination of so many foreigners; the landscape, the andering nature of the whole country, the gas stations and neon lights, boxes of ice and huge soda's for a dollar nineteen and couples it with a beautiful story of families, of redemption of loss and regret. Breathtaking and wonderful
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
A lining up of the planets
Wenders/Shepherd and Ry Cooder supply a wonderful amalgamation of vision in this one off . I remember seeing this movie when it came out and it stayed with me for weeks. I completely emphasised with Harry Dean Stanton's rather sad but sweet character. The desert is fantastically bleak and you see a side of America you rarely see in American movies.
There are some very sweet moments and there are no over the top emotional blow outs that other movies seem to regard as necessary for a climax.
What can I say - I love it. -
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Paris, Texas
Winner of the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984, Wim Wenders's PARIS, TEXAS tells the haunting story of an amnesiac (Harry Dean Stanton) and his struggle to rebuild his shattered life. Featuring a story by Sam Shepard and a renowned score by Ry Cooder, the film also stars Nastassja ...
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