Wim Wenders directs Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer and Elisabeth Kreuzer in this road movie where a German journalist travelling home from New York finds a young girl dumped into his journey.

Like all of Wenders’ oeuvre there actually isn’t a whole lot here. In the blanks you read deeper meaning about parenthood, responsibility, alienation, lost culture, urban beauty. So art in the best way. No explanation, open to interpretation. I think what Wenders does in these road movies, his slice of life musings is a real antidote. A tonic even for a confessed genre slut like me. See also Jarmusch and Hartley.

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