A gorgeous and heartbreaking look at angels in Berlin.
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03/25/06
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
Few films are so rich, so intriguing, or so ambitious.
01/26/06
Wonderfully imperfect, but a gem to those willing to follow along
07/07/03
The delicate way that Wenders’ articulates feelings of loss, alienation, and the first twinges of love let the film transcend its historical place.
01/01/00
This classic film celebrates the sensuous earthly delights of life and love with sympathy and sensitivity
02/28/02
The film evokes a mood of reverie, elegy and meditation.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe universal appeal of Wings of Desire has to do with the way that it addresses not merely angels above a divided city, but all of us struggling with the divided natures of our lives and our souls.
01/01/00
Depending on your tastes, you'll find the film either a beautiful, moving experience, or a slow and pretentious one.
07/20/05
...like no movie you've ever seen. At once mesmerizing and perplexing, this is a film about love and despair and the choices mortals have in dealing with each.
01/01/00
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
Underneath its melancholia and mind-boggling, even bothersome metaphysics, it's the simplest (well, almost) story ever told -- angel meets girl, angel gets girl.
01/01/00
Top Critica film of sheer visual poetry and deep emotional resonance
11/08/09
Startlingly original at first, Wings of Desire is in the end damagingly overloaded.
05/20/03
Top CriticA unique and enriching film. A film worth spending time getting to know.
10/22/05
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
One of the few truly great movies to come out of the '80s.
08/05/03
Top Critic...philosophical while still becoming hypnotic.
01/01/00
...a fascinating and enchanting character study and moral lesson that never preaches but gently transports you to a better place and a far more comfortable feeling about life.
07/08/03
Black and white and slow, but amazingly memorable and touching.
07/22/03
Wings of Desire is one of Wenders's most stunning achievements.
07/09/07
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