PARIS TEXAS
| 1984 – 148′ – Drama, Romance, Classic, France-Germany Co-production.
Written by: Sam Shepard, L.M. Kit Carson.
Directed by: Wim Wenders.
Starring: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Hunter Carson, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clément, Bernhard Wicky, Edward Faytown, Sam Berr.
Official Competition Cannes International Film Festival 1984 (Palme d’Or winner) & 2014 (20th anniversary presentation).
Official Selection COLCOA 2015 (Classic Series – Restored version).
In English.
A Century Fox release. |
Harry Dean Stanton disappears into the role of Travis, a forlorn and grizzled loner who emerges from the Texas wastelands after years of despair and penitence for an unnamed misdeed. Emotionally dead and unable to speak, only a phone number in his pocket connects him to a brother in Los Angeles. Travis is like a ghost walking through the rusted junkyards of his past, always on the cusp of vanishing back into the barren terrain from which he came, but as he slowly recovers his strength, he is possessed of a mad dream to put the shattered pieces of his life back together. Nastassja Kinski, in her most important role since Tess, portrays Jane, the unsophisticated Texas girl who escaped a troubled childhood by marrying too young. This fable of alienation and redemption features a spare but evocative score by Ry Cooder and spectacular sprawling vistas by the influential cinematographer Robby Müller. Restored for its 20th anniversary in 2014, Paris Texas casts a European’s eye for intimacy on the epic horizons of the American West.