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Paris, Texas
Front Cover Actor
Movie Details
Director Wim Wenders
Language English
Audience Rating R (Restricted)
Country USA
Color Color
Plot
Something like a perfect artistic union is achieved in the major components of Paris, Texas: the twang of Ry Cooder's guitar, the lonely light of Robbie Muller's camera, the craggy landscape of Harry Dean Stanton's face. In his greatest role, longtime character actor Stanton plays a man brought back to his old life after wandering in the desert (or somewhere) for four years. He has a 7-year-old son to get to know, and his wife has gone missing. The material is much in the wanderlust spirit of director Wim Wenders, working from a script by Sam Shepard and L.M. Kit Carson. If the long climactic conversation between Stanton and Nastassja Kinski renders the movie uneven and slightly inscrutable, it's hard to think of a more fitting ending--and besides, the achingly empty American spaces stick longer in the memory than the dialogue. Winner of the top prize at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. --Robert Horton
Personal Details
Seen It Yes
Index 1781
Collection Status In Collection
Links Amazon US
Product Details
Format DVD
Region Region 1
024543130741
Release Date 12/14/2004
Nr of Disks/Tapes 1