From AwardAnnals
Results of the Festival de Cannes in the year 1984. For a ranked list of films, try the honor roll.
Paris, Texas
Wim Wenders
Something like a perfect artistic union is achieved in the major components of
Paris, Texas: the twang of Ry Cooder’s guitar, the lonely light of Robbie Muller’s camera, the craggy landscape of Harry Dean Stanton’s face. In his greatest role, longtime character actor Stanton plays a man brought back to his old life after wandering in the desert (or somewhere) for four years. He has a 7-year-old son to get to know, and his wife has gone missing. The material is much in the wanderlust spirit of director Wim Wenders, working from a script by Sam Shepard and…
