Wings of Desire
Nov 30 - Dec 01, 2009
(Wim Wenders, 1988, West Berlin, 35mm, 127 min)
Made in the late 1980’s, before the fall of the Berlin Wall, a feeling of division permeates Wender’s classic Wings Of Desire. Not only is Berlin a city carved in half, but its inhabitants, both human and celestial, are cut off from love and sensation. Shot in black and white and color, the film has a hypnotic, dream-like quality as it alternates between human and angelic points of view. Bruno Ganz is the angel Damiel who falls in love with a trapeze artist (Solveig Donmartin) and decides to trade in his wings for mortal existence.
"For me, (Wings of Desire) is like music or a landscape: It clears a space in my mind, and in that space I can consider questions. Some of them are asked in the film: "Why am I me and why not you? Why am I here and why not there? When did time begin and where does space end?" - Roger Ebert
Watch the trailer:
