Review of Paris, Texas (1984) by Brett S — 03 Dec 2007
"Paris, Texas" is a unique movie and still worth talking about. When it first came out in 1985 in Germany, it got me interested in movies as an art form and I have been involved with movies ever since.
Neither Wender's previous nor later work has moved me as much as "Paris, Texas". To make a long story short, its poetry comes from not absorbing, consuming and wasting what it is looking at: The story of a broken man having lost the image he has created of his woman and son is a story about the images we make of each other.
"Paris, Texas" shows how a shallow, false image has damaged a love and familyrelationship. Robby Müller's camera work and Ry Cooder's music help in their tender, beautifully distanced, almost mesmerizing style, to "see" again what is behind those images and what is necessary for these people to come together again.
In the father and son's journey through the southern United States, seeking their third part - the mother -, an "American Beauty" unravels that hardly any movie shows in such a poetic way.
Maybe only foreigners can see this beauty in America.
This review of Paris, Texas (1984) was written by Brett S on 03 Dec 2007.
Paris, Texas has generally received very positive reviews.
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