Orion Classics
Directed by Wim Wenders
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Criterion Collection)
Angels move unseen among the residents of Berlin, listening to their inner thoughts or perched on statues. They attempt to console the lonely and depressed, but otherwise are mostly observers. One angel becomes enamored with a trapeze artist and yearns to become human so he can experience, among other things, love. He bursts into the world in dreary color, bloodied but excited to finally be among the living. He drinks coffee, bums some money, and then sets off in search of the trapeze artist. He finds her at a concert of her favorite band, and she instantly falls in love with him. Lyrical, poetic film that is beginning to fade with age, being dated by the laughable concert scenes with Nick Cave and Australian rock band Crime & the City Solution. Peter Falk plays himself as a former angel turned actor.
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