Der Himmel über Berlin (1987)'s comments

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hoogys

It's just a bang and a clatter.....

11 years 5 months ago

Alias

This movie is liquid religion.

12 years 10 months ago

salphinx

The most boring piece of...film.

12 years 2 months ago

george4mon

agreed very boring, but peter falk is as watchable as always!

12 years 2 months ago

kurvduam

(removed by mod: please post in English)

7 years 10 months ago

I saw Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire (or Les ailes du désir, as we called it) in a film history course at university, and it blew my mind, especially its maverick use of Peter Falk as himself, and it still blows my mind today. Wenders creates an unseen world of angels, some of them tired of an eternal existence and wishing for a human life, and in that premise is a celebration of all that is human, from rubbing your hands to warm them up to realizing something is the color red to loving a woman. The angels are here to give hope, and their own perspective can only revel in the big and small things that make life worth living, even when we think it is not. Oh did I say loving a woman? Yes, there's a woman played by Solveig Dommartin who learned the trapeze and did all her own routines, no doubles (impressive), for the movie, but while Bruno Ganz' Damiel is drawn to her, it's only as part of a whole. Part of a complete life, not the be-all and end-all. He would have been content just to hold an apple in his hand and be hit by a truck. Life for its own sake as something precious. Obviously, the American version, City of Angels, is just gonna turn this into a Meg Ryan romcom, but the original is more meditative, more universal, and more shocking. And it kind of has to take place in Berlin in the 80s, y'know? It's not just that Wenders is German, but the Wall is a perfect location to set that transition between one existence and another.

4 years 3 months ago

UnEnfantPerdu

Quite beautiful. Acting is faultless.

9 years 6 months ago

DJPowWow

Beautiful, but definitely not for viewers with short attention spans.

12 years ago

mattmansfieldok

Wings of Desire reminded me a lot of Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev (1966) and Bergman's The Seventh Seal (1957) but, mostly, it reminded me of A Matter of Life and Death (1946).

It's an absolutely incredible film. I can see why it's on the Spiritually Significant list.

12 years 5 months ago