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Paris, Texas

1984

Wim Wenders

Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clément ...

7.8

35,959

Drama A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his wife and son four years before. As his memory returns, he makes contact with various people from his past. Wim Wenders's 'Paris, Texas' tells the haunting story of an amnesiac (Harry Dean Stanton) and his struggle to rebuild his shattered life.

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	""Paris, Texas" is a movie with the kind of passion and willingness to experiment that was more common fifteen years ago than it is now. (...) It is true, deep, and brilliant. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)"
		Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"[It] has an epic sweep (with superb color photography by Robby Müller) (...) This is largely about the spaces between people and the words they speak"
		Holly Willis Variety	"What really impresses is the vision of writer-playwright Sam Shepard (...) It’s indeed a beautiful film (...) 'Paris, Texas' is refined arthouse cinema"
		Vincent Canby The New York Times	"'Paris, Texas' begins so beautifully and so laconically that when, about three-quarters of the way through, it begins to talk more and say less, the great temptation is to yell at it to shut up."
		Guy Lodge The Guardian	"It’s as acute and exquisite a film as has ever been made about family itself (...) The crowning achievement of Wenders’ speckled, frequently brilliant career"
		A.A. Dowd AV Club	"This is a movie that seems most profound when it’s saying the absolute least, privileging iconography over psychology (...) The film is most satisfying, most moving, when it’s at its most narratively vague"
		Chris Peachment Time Out	"Wenders' collaboration with writer Sam Shepard is a master-stroke, wholly beneficial to both talents"
		William Thomas Empire	"'Paris, Texas' is one of the great films about America, as directed by a German (...) Enigmatic and fascinating (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Tom Hutchinson Radio Times	"Ry Cooder's haunting guitar score gives the film an immediacy that makes it seems as though it's being ad-libbed (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Noel Murray Rolling Stone	"[A] heartbreaking, profoundly American masterpiece (...) The climactic scene (...) features a stunning autographical monologue that's one of the most mesmerizing pieces of screen acting ever filmed"

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