Film · 1987 · Romantic fantasy
Wings of Desire
Directed by Wim Wenders
1987
Germany
★ 7.5 editorial score
Wenders filmed a divided Berlin two years before the Wall came down and caught something nobody could stage again: angels listening in on what the people below are thinking.
“The grand theme of "Wings of Desire", Wim Wenders's cultishly adored fantasy of overcoat-clad angels in Berlin as the Cold War's end drew near, is storytelling in all its forms as a coping mechanism of the human race...Occasionally the characters' compulsion to wax philosophic can grate, but the environment of the walled-off, suspended-in-time West Berlin is dazzlingly rendered by Wenders and his collaborators.”
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