Aug 11th   
Paris, Texas** (12A)
(Greenwich Picturehouse)     

(WG/Fra 1984)  

Argos Films/Tobis Film/Road Movies/Filmproduktion GmbH. 148m.

A desert drifter heads towards the piece of land he owns in Paris, Texas, but patches up things first with his estranged wife and son.
Breakthrough arthouse film for this director casting his visual eye over the semi-remote American landscape, with various allusions to Westerns, road movies and some Biblical echoes (eg. the main character in the wilderness like Christ, etc.), long and languorous but less enigmatic than David Lynch and with moving moments of acting.

Written by: Sam Shepard, Kit Carson.
Producer: Don Guest.
Director: Wim Wenders.
Starring: Harry Dean Stanton, Dean Stockwell, Nastassja Kinski, Aurore Clement, Hunter Carson, Bernhard Wicki.
Photography: Robby Muller.
Music: Ry Cooder.

PARIS, TEXAS (1984). Wim Wenders's cult film "about America" although mostly European made, including Aurore Clement as a surrogate mother who reflects on her semi-adopted son leaving home to find his actual mother. His bedsheets referenced a popular film of the time.