Martin Schäfer
Series
The road trilogy volume 1
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Deutsch
Description
"The first of the road films that would come to define the career of Wim Wenders, the magnificent Alice in the Cities is an emotionally generous and luminously shot odyssey. A German journalist (Rüdiger Vogler) is driving across the United States to research an article; it's a disappointing trip, during which he is unable to truly connect with what he sees. Things change, however, when he has no choice but to take a young girl named Alice (Yella...
2) Wrong move
Series
The road trilogy volume 2
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Deutsch
Description
"With depth and style, Wim Wenders updates a late-eighteenth-century novel by Goethe, transposing it to 1970s West Germany and giving us the story of an aimless writer (Rüdiger Vogler) who leaves his hometown to find himself and winds up befriending a group of other travelers. Seeking inspiration to help him escape his creative funk, he instead discovers the limits of attempts to refashion one's identity. One of the director's least seen bu earthiest...