Alice in the Cities (1974)
(Alice in den Städten)
Country: GER
Technical: bw 113m
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Lisa Kreuzer
Synopsis:
A journalist on assignment to write his impressions of a road trip in the U.S. is overwhelmed by the uniformity around him and succeeds only in returning with a box of polaroids. Returning to Europe, he meets a nine year-old girl and her mother in the throes of a relationship breakup and, before he knows it, he is accompanying the girl himself on the plane to Amsterdam, and then around various German towns to look for her grandmother.
Review:
Very much a product of its time, this is one of those films that starts off as one story and then becomes another, though of course the point is that nothing really happens in either. The key 'action' takes place between Alice and Philip, as they learn to be responsible for each other, and Wenders provides us with a picture of a Germany still under reconstruction. The Can music on the soundtrack seems as improvised as the screenplay; it is uncertain whether the Lewis Carroll reference in the title is deliberate, but that would make sense.
(Alice in den Städten)
Country: GER
Technical: bw 113m
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Lisa Kreuzer
Synopsis:
A journalist on assignment to write his impressions of a road trip in the U.S. is overwhelmed by the uniformity around him and succeeds only in returning with a box of polaroids. Returning to Europe, he meets a nine year-old girl and her mother in the throes of a relationship breakup and, before he knows it, he is accompanying the girl himself on the plane to Amsterdam, and then around various German towns to look for her grandmother.
Review:
Very much a product of its time, this is one of those films that starts off as one story and then becomes another, though of course the point is that nothing really happens in either. The key 'action' takes place between Alice and Philip, as they learn to be responsible for each other, and Wenders provides us with a picture of a Germany still under reconstruction. The Can music on the soundtrack seems as improvised as the screenplay; it is uncertain whether the Lewis Carroll reference in the title is deliberate, but that would make sense.
(Alice in den Städten)
Country: GER
Technical: bw 113m
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Lisa Kreuzer
Synopsis:
A journalist on assignment to write his impressions of a road trip in the U.S. is overwhelmed by the uniformity around him and succeeds only in returning with a box of polaroids. Returning to Europe, he meets a nine year-old girl and her mother in the throes of a relationship breakup and, before he knows it, he is accompanying the girl himself on the plane to Amsterdam, and then around various German towns to look for her grandmother.
Review:
Very much a product of its time, this is one of those films that starts off as one story and then becomes another, though of course the point is that nothing really happens in either. The key 'action' takes place between Alice and Philip, as they learn to be responsible for each other, and Wenders provides us with a picture of a Germany still under reconstruction. The Can music on the soundtrack seems as improvised as the screenplay; it is uncertain whether the Lewis Carroll reference in the title is deliberate, but that would make sense.