It’s indeed a beautiful film, one that will surely convince doubters that Muller is one of the cinema’s best cameramen. He gives the story a surface polish that hints of Edward Hopper and Georgia O’Keefe Americana paintings. Some images are positively breathtaking.
Paris, Texas
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West Germany, France, United Kingdom · 1984
Rated R · 2h 26m
Director Wim Wenders
Starring Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Hunter Carson
Genre Drama
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A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to bring back the memories of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
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Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Like Wenders's other road movies, this is largely about the spaces between people and the words they speak—Antonioni updated and infused with German romanticism; the various means of indirection through which the hero communicates with his son (Hunter Carson) and wife (Nastassja Kinski) constitute a striking motif.
Slant Magazine by Joseph Jon Lanthier
Paris, Texas may be missing a crucial piece of authentic Americana, but it still evokes an America most Americans yearn to gaze on. An America as thorny and carnivorous as a hawk talon, as raw and smug as a downtown mural, and as sweetly enigmatic as a vacant lot that doesn’t—that can’t—exist.
Paris, Texas has an undeniable power. There is certainly a sort of transcendence to be found in the sight of Travis, wearing those 40 miles of rough road on his face, finally finding a measure of peace.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Then there are the miracles of the performances by Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski and Hunter Carson.
The New York Times by Vincent Canby
Paris, Texas begins so beautifully and so laconically that when, about three-quarters of the way through, it begins to talk more and say less, the great temptation is to yell at it to shut up. If it were a hitchhiker, you'd stop the car and tell it to get out.
Enigmatic and fascinating.
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