Paris, Texas

Name: Paris, Texas
Genre: Classic, Social Issues, Drama
Released: 1984
Duration: 145 min
Cast: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clément

Wim Wenders19842h 25mClassic, Social Issues, Drama

Why we chose it

A silent man walks out of the Texas desert in search of his wife in the cult road movie that Wim Wenders began shooting with only half a script, and which went on to win the Palme d’Or. It’s a portrait of a lonely America, where Nastassja Kinski in a pink sweater stands for something we’ve all lost.

Synopsis

Silent and apparently without a memory, a man wanders through Texas in punishing heat until he is found unconscious in the desert. His brother, who gave him up for dead years ago, takes him home to the boy he and his wife have been raising, the man’s own son. He won’t say where he has been all this time, and all he wants is to find his wife and take the boy with him.