40 years after the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984, the feature film starring Harry Dean Stanton and Nastassja Kinski returns to Italian cinemas from 4 November, in a restored edition
A 40 years from the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984, one of the most beloved films of Wim Wenders, Paris, Texasreturns from November 4th in Italian cinemasthanks to Cineteca di Bologna and his project Il Cinema Ritrovato. At the Cinema ea CG Entertainment.
Premiered at the last Cannes Film Festival and at the festival Il Cinema Ritrovato of Bologna, the 4K restoration Of Paris, Texas was made in 2024: the original 35 mm negative was scanned in 4K at L’Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna, with the financial support of the CNC; the restoration and color correction took place at Basis Berlin Postproduktion, with the support of Chanel and the German Film Heritage Funding Program (FFE).
Harry Dean Stanton in Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders © 1984 Road Movies Filmproduktion – Argos Films Courtesy of Wim Wenders Stiftung – Argos Films
Wenders’ masterpiece to the tune of Ry Cooder,
Written together with Sam Shepardplayed by Harry Dean Stanton e Nastassja Kinskiwith the legendary music of Ry Cooder, Paris, Texas it is, according to Emmanuel Carrère, “the calmest, most sober film that Wenders ever directed”. It is certainly the work that definitively consecrated the German director among the great authors of world cinema. Last film of Wenders’ American period, Paris, Texas it is a free, tender and desperate road movie, a tribute to the places of the western, a very human rereading of Hollywood genres.
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The plot of the film
An aging father under his baseball cap and his young son travel across Texas in a pickup truck, looking for a wife and mother 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.
