Forty years ago ‘Paris, Texas‘ was released on the big screen, the film that definitively consecrated its director, Wim Wenders, in the Olympus of the great authors of world cinema. The film, starring Harry Dean Stanton and Nastassja Kinski, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984, and critics defined that work, which has become a cult, “the calmest, most sober film that Wenders ever directed “.
On the occasion of the anniversary, tonight at 9pm, Giunti Odeon offers ‘Paris, Texas’ in its cinema in a new restored version, for the first time in 4K, in the original language with Italian subtitles.
This is the last film of Wenders’ American period, written by Sam Shepard, a free, tender and desperate road movie, a tribute to the places of the western, a very human rereading of Hollywood genres. It tells of an aging father under his baseball cap and his young son traveling across Texas in a pickup, looking for a wife and mother they lost years before. They talk about the big bang theory and why she left.
Man, who had closed his faults and defeats in silence, rediscovers the word and the meaning of human relationships. He rediscovers them so well that when they finally find the woman, in a kind of sex club where the girls talk to customers through a glass, without seeing them, Harry Dean Stanton can break them and break our hearts by telling a story, which of course is their story. She is the Nastassja Kinski (pictured) of 1984, an icon from then on.
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