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Wings of Desire (1987)
There are angels on
the streets of Berlin.
Director: Wim
Wenders, rated PG-13
  Starring:
Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Peter Faulk, Curt
Bois, Hans-Martin Stier, Elmar Wilms, Sigurd Rachman, Beatrice
Manowski, Lajos Kovacs
DML Rating:
★★★★★★★★★☆
- near perfect
"Every time we
participated, it was a pretense. Wrestling with one, allowing a
hip to be put out in pretense, catching a fish in pretense, in
pretense sitting at tables, drinking and eating in pretense.
Having lambs roasted and wine served in the tents out there in
the desert, only in pretense. No, I don't have to beget a child
or plant a tree but it would be rather nice coming home after a
long day to feed the cat, like Philip Marlowe, to have a fever
and blackended fingers from the newspaper, to be excited not
only by the mind but, at last, by a meal, by the line of a neck
by an ear. To lie! Through one's teeth." -
Damiel
Why watch this?
Mesmerizing. Heartbreaking. Painful. Beautiful. Hopeful
Plot Summary: Two
immortal angels, Damiel and Cassiel, watch over the troubled
citizens of a divided Berlin, listening to their silent, inner
thoughts and offering quiet comfort. One of these divine beings
falls deeply in love with a lonely trapeze artist, Marion, and
chooses to surrender his eternal life to experience human
feelings. He descends into the tangible, colorful world of
mortals to find her and discover what it means to truly live.
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Dad's Preview:
Are there angels walking among us, benevolent spirits who gently
give comfort? In this beautiful German art house film, we
witness two of these angels. One, Damiel, expresses his longing
to become a human and experience real life. Then he meets
Marion, a lonely woman searching for something. This film,
however, is so much more than a romance. Set in post-war Berlin,
it deeply explores what it means to be human; it exposes our
daily thoughts, our desires, our death wishes, our regrets. It
all reads like poetry. It should make us feel melancholy.
Instead we are exalted and feel more alive than ever. This is a
brilliant study about what it is to BE, and how our time on this
plane is a gift, not a chore, even to those lofty beings who
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Road Movies,
Filmproduktion, Argos
Films, Westdeutscher Rundfunk;
Basis-Film_verleih GmbH
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