Paris, Texas (1984)
Paris, Texas is a 1984 drama movie directed by Wim Wenders, with a running time of 2h 25m. It stars Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski and Dean Stockwell.
A man in a red cap walks out of the Texas desert, silent, with no idea who he is or how he got there. His brother tracks him down and drives him back toward a life he abandoned four years ago, including the young son he left behind. Wim Wenders shoots the American Southwest as vast, sun-bleached, and lonely, scored by Ry Cooder's slide guitar. The story moves at a walking pace, patient with silence, watching a broken man decide how much of his past he can face. Harry Dean Stanton anchors it with a worn, wordless dignity.
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Official site
http://www.wim-wenders.com/movies/movies_spec/paristexas/paris_texas.htm
Cast
- Harry Dean Stanton as Travis
- Nastassja Kinski as Jane
- Dean Stockwell as Walt
- Hunter Carson as Hunter
- Aurore Clément as Anne
- Bernhard Wicki as Doctor Ulmer
- Sam Berry as Gas Station Attendant
- Claresie Mobley as Car Rental Clerk
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- Socorro Valdez as Carmelita
- Edward Fayton as Hunter's Friend
- Justin Hogg as Hunter (Age 3)
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A few thoughts on Paris, Texas
If the amnesia and the empty landscape drew you in, The Tourist strands a man with no memory in the Australian outback and lets the wide, indifferent country supply the menace. Same pull of a blank past against a huge, unforgiving place.
Dramas about a man who has lost his memory and his name
Paris, Texas opens with Travis wandering out of the desert unable to say who he is. These stories share that same puzzle of a stranger reassembling a lost identity, tracing scattered clues back toward a life and the people who thought he was gone for good.
Estranged fathers trying to reconnect with the child they walked out on
The ache at the center of Paris, Texas is Travis returning to the young son he abandoned years earlier. These picks follow other fathers closing the distance to a kid who barely knows them, learning that showing up is only the first hard part of coming home.
Slow, quiet character studies of a broken man finding his footing
Paris, Texas moves at a walking pace, patient with silence as one damaged man decides how much of his past he can face. These titles take the same unhurried route through loneliness, guilt and small chances at repair, trusting a face and a long look to carry the weight.