BFI introduction:
This screening includes a Q&A with director Wim Eenders. A German writer leaving the USA finds himself unwittingly responsible for an eight-year-old girl and embarks on a cross country road trip with her. Photographed in black and white by Robby Müller, this early work by Wenders still looks exceptional today, and is timely in its exploration of the US and Europe. Photographed in black and white by Robby Muller, this early work by Wenders looks exceptional and is timely today in its exploration of the US and Europe. This event will focus on the role that photography, and the Polaroid in particular, plays in Wenders’ work looking both at this film and his new exhibition ‘Instant Stories: Wim Wenders’ Polaroids’ at The Photographers Gallery (20 October – 11 February, tpg.org.uk).
Chicago Reader review:
Wim Wenders's roughly styled but sensitive 1974 film about fading cultural identities. Long-faced Rüdiger Vogler, a Wenders favorite, is a German photojournalist in search of the Real America. While in New York, he reluctantly accepts responsibility for Alice, a nine-year-old German girl abandoned by her mother. Together they return to Europe in search of the girl's grandmother, remembered, dimly, as living in a small village. Which one, they don't know. Without a place to stop, the characters continue to move—restlessly, desperately, the end point always out of sight.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is an extract.
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