Wings of Desire (1987)
Directed by Wim Wenders
Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds — with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk — that it might be possible for him to take human form.
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From "The Bishop's Wife" to "Heaven Can Wait," this subject and its variations are quite popular.
His films—even his most plotted work, The American Friend (my favorite)—are in no hurry to get to the seemingly no particular place they're going.
Co-written and directed by Wenders ("The American Friend," "Paris, Texas") after being inspired by the poet Rainer Maria Rilke's verses about angels, "Wings of Desire" is the filmmaker's observance of the smaller joys of life and living, the things most of us pass over.
His “Kings of the Road” (1974) was a three-hour odyssey in which two men wander the border between East and West Germany in a VW bus, sharing confessions and insights, learning that they cannot live with women and cannot live without them.
Perhaps Wenders sees him as an alter ego, looking for a plot much as the director did with his road films "Paris, Texas" and "Kings of the Road."
It's perhaps Wim Wenders ("Until the End of the World"/"The American Friend"/"Wings of Desire") most brilliant and original film, at least it's the one I most admire.