"Wrong Move," early Wim Wenders, part of his traveling trilogy. It stars

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the same actor, Rudiger Vogler, as "Alice in the Cities" (another gem NOT available on DVD, yet, dammit!) along with a pubescent and stunningly beautiful Nasstassja Kinski and a very young Hanna Schygulla---two breathtaking beauties in one film!
The plot? A disaffected man entering middle-age leaves his small German town to go to Bonn (at the strong urging of his Mother, with whom he lived) and encounters an older man, who raced in the 1936 Olympics for Nazi Germany and who aimlessly is traveling with his mute daughter who earns money as she performs endless cartwheels in public areas (yes, Nasstassja does her own stunts!). At some point, an actress joins the trio and then a poet who invites them all to stay at his uncle's in the country.
They arrive in the night, roust a man with a shotgun, and realize it is the wrong house.
This makes the film sound much more "active" than it is. The characters all (with Kinski's exception, of course) engage in long conversations which, I understand, have basis in a selection of modern European formal philosophy.
Anyhow, I enjoyed it if not for its absolute destruction of formal film: no plot, wandering dialogue, casual occurances are the rule, and magnificent cinematography.
Not the master stroke that "Alice in the Cities" is, but how many films are?
For Wenders and Tarkovsky fans.

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Topic - "Wrong Move," early Wim Wenders, part of his traveling trilogy. It stars - tinear 13:40:01 03/05/07 (1)

I went to see Wings of Desire on a first date when it cam out. - sjb 18:49:48 03/05/07 (0)

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