The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty (Wenders, 1972): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 6.10pm
This film, also being screened on June 3rd and 24th, is part of the Big Screen Classics strand at BFI Southbank. Details here.
Time Out review:
The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty outdoes even Wim Wenders' subsequent Alice in the Cities in
its sense that everything shown is at once subjective and objective.
German goalie Bloch (Arthur Brauss) walks out of a game in Vienna, hangs
around, commits an arbitrary murder, and then takes a coach to the
Austrian border to look up an old flame. It's the journey of a man who's
getting too old for his job, living off his nerves, sustained by his
taste for Americana, movies and rock (everything from Hitchcock to
'Wimaway'). Brauss' engagingly hangdog face anchors it all in
recognisable human feelings, while avoiding the least hint of
'psychological' explanation. More than in his later movies, Wenders'
style here has a remarkably charged quality: every frame haunts you for
goddam weeks.
Tony Rayns
Here (and above) is Wim Wenders' introduction to the film.
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