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Information
- A.k.a.
- Alice in the Cities
- Year
- 1974
- Runtime
- 113 min.
- Director
- Wim Wenders
- Genre
- Drama
- Rating *
- 8.0
- Votes *
- 5,390
- Checks
- 1,993
- Favs
- 281
- Dislikes
- 11
- Favs/checks
- 14.1% (1:7)
- Favs/dislikes
- 26:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
In Alice in the Cities, Wim Wenders gives an unlikely pair of companions in Philip, a journalist who's just driven though the United States and failed to find a story, and Alice, a young girl abandoned to his care by a woman he just met at the airport. Together, they meander through New York, Amsterdam and the whole of Germany, until Alice can be put into the hands of a proper guardian. Hauntingly scored, this is a quiet film about human contact and urban alienation, Philip's Polaroids empty of people until a crucial moment, when Alice becomes something other than a burden to him. The young actress is very strong, eliciting his annoyance and sympathy both, an effect she also has on the audience. Movies about men saddled with daughter stand-ins are usually very purposeful - it's an action movie trope - but this road movie is purposefully pointless. The characters don't really know what they're looking for, and so fail to find it, except in a roundabout way. A few minutes in, I was afraid I might get bored. By the end, I had totally fallen under its poignant spell. 5 years ago -
deckard.
brilliant. a movie close to perfection. considering i avoid movies with kid actors in the lead like bubonic plague, this movie floored me with its profound simplicity.
that scene in the photo cabin was pure heart-melting stuff. 1 year 10 months ago -
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