Few films are so rich, so intriguing, or so ambitious.
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01/26/06
Wings of Desire (1987)
97 %
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Reviews Counted: 36
Fresh: 35
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 falling in love with a beautiful trapeze... [More]
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Peter Falk
Director: Wim Wenders
Reviews for Wings of Desire
Top Critic 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
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
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
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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September 15, 2005:
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