Faraway, So Close!
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| Director(s) | Wim Wenders |
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| Subtitle | (In weiter Ferne, so nah!) |
| Distributor | Sony Pictures |
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| German director Wim Wenders provides another breathtaking angel’s-eye view of Berlin in Faraway, So Close, the offbeat follow up to Wings of Desire. The film revisits all the main characters from Wings: Damiel (Bruno Ganz), now a former angel married to trapezist Marion (Solveig Dommartin), and Cassiel (Otto Sander), who remained an angel at the end of the first film but takes the plunge into human life here. Peter Falk also reprises his unusual cameo role. Newly added to the mix are Nastassja Kinski as another visiting angel and Willem Dafoe… | |
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German director Wim Wenders provides another breathtaking angel’s-eye view of Berlin in Faraway, So Close, the offbeat follow up to Wings of Desire. The film revisits all the main characters from Wings: Damiel (Bruno Ganz), now a former angel married to trapezist Marion (Solveig Dommartin), and Cassiel (Otto Sander), who remained an angel at the end of the first film but takes the plunge into human life here. Peter Falk also reprises his unusual cameo role. Newly added to the mix are Nastassja Kinski as another visiting angel and Willem Dafoe as an enigmatic figure who moves freely between angelic and human existence. The Berlin Wall came down between the making of the two films, and the tone of Faraway, So Close reflects that change. The film is lighter and more buoyant than its predecessor, and its plot is more conventional. This time out, the remarkable soundtrack includes music by Laurent Petitgand and Graeme Revell, as well as songs by Nick Cave and Lou Reed. Faraway is one sequel that’s definitely no rehash; it offers instead a surprising new perspective on Wenders’s earlier vision, and the new DVD release includes an insightful audio commentary from the director himself. Gregory Baird
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