Stroszek (1977)
Directed by Werner Herzog
Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.
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Previously he had explored the more closed-in spaces of Europe in the German language films "Alice in the Cities" (1974) and "Kings of the Road" (1976) but with "Paris, Texas" (1984) he turned his gaze (and Robbie Müller´s) to the wide-open highways and byways of America which fascinated so many European directors (Wenders´ New German Cinema compatriot Werner Herzog took a similar turn in 1977´s "Stroszek.")
This artificiality can perhaps be attributed to German-born Wim Wenders’ perception of the American Midwest (a perception also evident in Werner Herzog’s Stroszek and Michelangelo Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point).
(It's a look at Americans as kind-eyed aliens that serves as an almost unbearably piquant counterpart to New German Cinema-mate Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas.)
Greg doesn't become the dancing chicken at the end of Herzog's "Stroszek," which isn't a surprise, but made me happy for the kid nonetheless.