Directed by Wim Wenders
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
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German writer Rudiger Vogler is driving around America in search of a story for his publisher. He takes polaroid pictures and attacks his TV in a run down motel room. He meets a woman at the airport on the way back to Germany, who leaves him with her nine-year-old daughter and promises to meet up in Amsterdam, but never shows. Vogler and the girl, played to perfection by Yella Rottlander, drive around Amsterdam then head to Germany to find her grandmother. This film is all about the journey, not the destination. Wenders is not afraid to let the camera linger on the landscape, city streets or people, and America and Germany share a common bleakness. The relationship between Vogler and Rottlander is slow to develop, and lacking in conversation, but his actions speak louder than words.
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