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
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a film of sheer visual poetry and deep emotional resonance Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Wings of Desire is one of Wenders's most stunning achievements. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
A gorgeous and heartbreaking look at angels in Berlin. Full Review |
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Few films are so rich, so intriguing, or so ambitious. Full Review |
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A unique and enriching film. A film worth spending time getting to know. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
Depending on your tastes, you'll find the film either a beautiful, moving experience, or a slow and pretentious one. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Wings of Desire is the most optimistic of films, finding freedom and potential in the quotidian privileges most of us take for granted. Full Review |
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What Wim Wenders has done in his most transcendent film is not merely praise assenting angels, but embrace descending ones – we humans – as well. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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.
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One of the few truly great movies to come out of the '80s. Full Review |
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