Riga IFF will screen Wim Wenders’ revamped road movie Paris, Texas

Screening the gold standard of the road movie subgenre, the segment will open on October 19 Germany’s Zeitgeist, was created in collaboration with the Goethe Institute in Riga.

“It’s a different film today, although nothing has changed. I see it differently now. And I like what I see. But It’s definitely different from the movie I saw in 1984. We were never as close to the tape as the person who was caught.”

This is how the director describes the film in an interview with the Wim Wenders Foundation Paris, Texas, which premiered in the main competition of the Cannes Film Festival in 1984. It received several prestigious awards from the world of cinema, including golden palm branch, British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Film Award and others, Paris, Texas considered to be Wenders’ most famous, most recognizable and famous film work. This spring, 40 years after its premiere, the extraordinary road movie that has gained cult status among moviegoers returned to Cannes in a new 4K digital restoration.

Wenders, one of the brightest representatives of the new German cinema movement, fascinated by American mythology and filmmaking traditions at the beginning of his career, reaches artistic and emotional maturity with this odyssey of human self-consciousness. Playwright Sam Shepard’s script about the meaning of change, words and silence unfolds between the impressive visuals created by cinematographer Robbie Miller and the hypnotic sound of Ray Cooder’s slide guitar. On the other hand, the filigree, Lynch’s favorite actor, Harry Dean Stanton and the magnetizing Nastasya Kinski, whose image in a pink Angora sweater has become a complete film narrative, play the main roles of Travis and Jane.

next to Paris, Texas sections Zeitgeist in Germany the program will also include a special screening of Wenders’ short films. Four researched miniatures span the period from 1967 to 1982, when Wenders’ work was apparently too spectacular for the big screen and too ambitious for the altars of contemporary art. Allowing you to experience the author’s faith in experimentation and portraying an anonymous artist in his youth, the changes in images and their relationship to color and time are mixed with reflection on the pain of filmmaking and the future of this art form. .

With movies Paris, Texas screening on October 19, at 18.00 c/t A magnificent palace The section dedicated to German cinema will be opened in the Great Hall Germany’s Zeitgeist, which is created in collaboration with the Goethe Institute in Riga. On the other hand, the screening of Wenders’ short films warms up the section already on October 18 at 21.10 c/t A magnificent palace In the small hall.

Tickets for these and other shows in the festival program are available on the website rigaiff.lv and Ticket service at points of sale.