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- For Wings of Desire, Wenders won awards for Best Director at both the Cannes Film Festival and European Film Awards. The film was a critical and financial success, and academics have interpreted it as a statement of the importance of cinema, libraries, the circus, or German unity, containing New Age, religious, secular or other themes.
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Oct 30, 2015 · 5 visual themes in Wings of Desire – Wim Wenders’ immortal film about watching. It’s been voted the second best film of the 1980s, but what makes Wim Wenders’ fantasy about two angels observing life in Berlin still so resonant today? These five extracts give a clue to the film’s enduring richness.
Jul 4, 2022 · Interviews. Wings of Desire (1987) is an ambitious, poetic work about an angel’s desire to become human in West Berlin. Damiel (Bruno Ganz) spends his days eavesdropping on the thoughts of Berliners with fellow angel Cassiel (Otto Sander), looking down at teeming humanity from atop churches and walking among the despairing and the hopeful.
Apr 12, 1998 · “Wings of Desire” is one of those films movie critics are accused of liking because it’s esoteric and difficult. “Nothing happens but it takes two hours and there’s a lot of complex symbolism,” complains a Web-based critic named Peter van der Linden.
For Wings of Desire, Wenders won awards for Best Director at both the Cannes Film Festival and European Film Awards. The film was a critical and financial success, and academics have interpreted it as a statement of the importance of cinema, libraries, the circus, or German unity, containing New Age, religious, secular or other themes.
In the years since it was made, Berlin has changed beyond all recognition. And so has the world. No matter what the future has in store, there will be a place on high for Wings of Desire, a picture that saw a cynical filmmaker embrace something essential: hope.
Apr 4, 2021 · Given the philosophical nature of the film, its cerebral exploration of the human condition, and the poetic dialogue, Wings of Desire is very quotable. Here are some of the best quotes from the movie, translated to English.
Jun 23, 2022 · A heavenly aerial view over a black-and-white Berlin begins the restored Wings of Desire, Wim Wenders’ impossibly poignant 1987 study of angels among us. The shot was achieved before drones...
