a film of sheer visual poetry and deep emotional resonance
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11/08/09
Wings of Desire (1987)
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Reviews Counted:38
Fresh:37
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.4/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: The sky over Wenders's war-scarred Berlin is full of gentle angels wearing trench coats who listen to the tortured thoughts of mortals and try to comfort them. One wishes to become mortal after... [More]
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Peter Falk
Director: Wim Wenders
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Reviews for Wings of Desire
It's hard to think of another movie of its era that makes the viewer so fully feel like a denizen of its setting; the roving, dollying, craning camera makes angels of us all.
11/02/09
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02/29/08
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11/02/07
Wings of Desire is one of Wenders's most stunning achievements.
07/09/07
Top CriticA gorgeous and heartbreaking look at angels in Berlin.
03/25/06
Few films are so rich, so intriguing, or so ambitious.
01/26/06
A unique and enriching film. A film worth spending time getting to know.
10/22/05
Depending on your tastes, you'll find the film either a beautiful, moving experience, or a slow and pretentious one.
07/20/05
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06/20/05
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02/15/05
Wings of Desire enthralls me, and it sends me back to my life a richer person, glad to be alive, looking about at the mundane and the everyday with new appreciation.
01/15/05
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02/08/04
Wings of Desire is the most optimistic of films, finding freedom and potential in the quotidian privileges most of us take for granted.
11/01/03
What Wim Wenders has done in his most transcendent film is not merely praise assenting angels, but embrace descending ones – we humans – as well.
10/29/03
While it takes a little getting used to, Wenders' look at Heaven and Earth and the tug between living an experience instead of merely observing is pleasantly haunting.
10/22/03
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10/17/03
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08/21/03
One of the few truly great movies to come out of the '80s.
08/05/03
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