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Movie still from Paris, Texas featuring Nastassja Kinski in a luscious blonde bob and pink lips, dressed in a fuzzy magenta jumper. In the room, there is a television set on a top shelf and window half-concealed by an orange curtain, whereas a lamp with tangerine-coloured lampshade and a red desk telephone sit on a shelf beside the actress.

Paris, Texas

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Programme: Claire Denis: Friends and Inspiration​
Year: 1984
Director: Wim Wenders
Format: DCP / Category IIA / 147 min.
Language: English (with Chinese subtitles)
Audience: Everyone
Location: House 1
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Standard: HKD 85
Concessions: HKD 68

Movie still from Paris, Texas featuring Nastassja Kinski in a luscious blonde bob and pink lips, dressed in a fuzzy magenta jumper. In the room, there is a television set on a top shelf and window half-concealed by an orange curtain, whereas a lamp with tangerine-coloured lampshade and a red desk telephone sit on a shelf beside the actress.

Paris, Texas

A mysterious, nearly mute drifter is found in the middle of the Texas desert. Having disappeared years earlier, vanishing from the lives of all who knew him, he gets a second chance to connect with his young son when his brother takes him home. Yet the drifter must leave once again—this time, to return his son to where he belongs. Wim Wenders's 1984 Palme d’Or winner charts the journey of a broken man who attempts to make amends for the pain he caused his family. It was the first film on which Claire Denis worked for Wenders as his assistant director. Agnès Godard, who was serving as an assistant for cinematographer Robby Müller, met Denis during this shoot and would become the latter’s cinematographer for much of her career.

Movie still from Paris, Texas showing a bearded Harry Dean Stanton staring afar with a frown in a dsert. The actor is dressed in a shabby brown suit, white shirt, yellow tie and a red cap.

Wim Wenders. Paris, Texas, 1984. Photo: Courtesy of The Festival Agency

Movie still from Paris, Texas featuring Hunter Carson as a young boy, sitting at the back of a blue pickup track and talking into a walkie-talkie. The driver, only whose back is shown, is listening to a walkie talkie of the same style. Carson is dressed in a red t-shirt, shiny baseball jacket with an USA flag badge on the right arm and green camouflage pants.

Wim Wenders. Paris, Texas, 1984. Photo: Courtesy of The Festival Agency

Movie still from Paris, Texas depicting Nastassja Kinski looking in a wooden framed mirror which is attached to a wall wrapped by insulating wall liners. Seated in a navy dress, she is gazing pensively at her own reflection.

Wim Wenders. Paris, Texas, 1984. Photo: Courtesy of The Festival Agency

Movie still from Paris, Texas showing a bearded Harry Dean Stanton staring afar with a frown in a dsert. The actor is dressed in a shabby brown suit, white shirt, yellow tie and a red cap.

Wim Wenders. Paris, Texas, 1984. Photo: Courtesy of The Festival Agency

Movie still from Paris, Texas featuring Hunter Carson as a young boy, sitting at the back of a blue pickup track and talking into a walkie-talkie. The driver, only whose back is shown, is listening to a walkie talkie of the same style. Carson is dressed in a red t-shirt, shiny baseball jacket with an USA flag badge on the right arm and green camouflage pants.

Wim Wenders. Paris, Texas, 1984. Photo: Courtesy of The Festival Agency

Movie still from Paris, Texas depicting Nastassja Kinski looking in a wooden framed mirror which is attached to a wall wrapped by insulating wall liners. Seated in a navy dress, she is gazing pensively at her own reflection.

Wim Wenders. Paris, Texas, 1984. Photo: Courtesy of The Festival Agency

Movie still from Paris, Texas showing a bearded Harry Dean Stanton staring afar with a frown in a dsert. The actor is dressed in a shabby brown suit, white shirt, yellow tie and a red cap.

Wim Wenders. Paris, Texas, 1984. Photo: Courtesy of The Festival Agency

Movie still from Paris, Texas featuring Hunter Carson as a young boy, sitting at the back of a blue pickup track and talking into a walkie-talkie. The driver, only whose back is shown, is listening to a walkie talkie of the same style. Carson is dressed in a red t-shirt, shiny baseball jacket with an USA flag badge on the right arm and green camouflage pants.

Wim Wenders. Paris, Texas, 1984. Photo: Courtesy of The Festival Agency

Movie still from Paris, Texas depicting Nastassja Kinski looking in a wooden framed mirror which is attached to a wall wrapped by insulating wall liners. Seated in a navy dress, she is gazing pensively at her own reflection.

Wim Wenders. Paris, Texas, 1984. Photo: Courtesy of The Festival Agency

Movie still from Paris, Texas showing a bearded Harry Dean Stanton staring afar with a frown in a dsert. The actor is dressed in a shabby brown suit, white shirt, yellow tie and a red cap.

Wim Wenders. Paris, Texas, 1984. Photo: Courtesy of The Festival Agency

Movie still from Paris, Texas featuring Hunter Carson as a young boy, sitting at the back of a blue pickup track and talking into a walkie-talkie. The driver, only whose back is shown, is listening to a walkie talkie of the same style. Carson is dressed in a red t-shirt, shiny baseball jacket with an USA flag badge on the right arm and green camouflage pants.

Wim Wenders. Paris, Texas, 1984. Photo: Courtesy of The Festival Agency

Movie still from Paris, Texas depicting Nastassja Kinski looking in a wooden framed mirror which is attached to a wall wrapped by insulating wall liners. Seated in a navy dress, she is gazing pensively at her own reflection.

Wim Wenders. Paris, Texas, 1984. Photo: Courtesy of The Festival Agency

About the Director

Wim Wenders (b. 1945, Germany) made a number of short films before completing his first feature, Summer in the City (1970), with Dutch cinematographer Robby Müller. The two continued to work together for decades thereafter. Wenders’s films Alice in the Cities (1974), Wrong Move (1975), and Kings of the Road (1976) are celebrated as ‘The Road Movie Trilogy’. The 1970s were productive for the New German Cinema figure, yet Wenders’s prominence soared even higher in the 1980s with Paris, Texas (1984) and Wings of Desire (1987). He is also a prolific documentarian, with works including Tokyo-Ga (1985), Buena Vista Social Club (1999), and Pina (2011) reflecting his wide-ranging interests in film, music, and dance.

Image at top: Wim Wenders. Paris, Texas, 1984. Photo: Courtesy of The Festival Agency

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