One (of the many) thing(s) Paris, Texas hits right on the head is what it's like confronting someone who hurt you so deeply that you have all these imagined conversations with how angry you're going to be and the reality is just a humiliating sadness and regret and no real catharsis or full closure
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THE CLASSIC AMERICAN ROAD MOVIE HITS WESTERN GERMAN CINEMAS IN '84.
PIC INFO: Resolution at 960x680 -- Spotlight on a Western Germany scene card for the Wim Wenders directed/co-written road film starring Nastassja Kinski & Harry Dean Stanton, "Paris, Texas" (1984). Road Movies/Tobis Film (West Germany).
"When "Paris, Texas" won at Cannes, he says: “It was terrible afterwards. It created a huge void in my life for the next three years because everybody expected me to do that all over again, and that was the only thing I didn’t want to do.”
-- THE GUARDIAN, "Wim Wenders: "When Paris, Texas won Cannes it was terrible," by Ryan Gilbey, July 1, 2022
Sources: https://posteritati.com/director/63/wim-wenders & The Guardian.
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Nastassja Kinski in "Paris, Texas" directed by Wim Wenders, 1984
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Elliott would have turned 55 years old today. Here are two pics of him that are very dear to me; as a kid and as an adult with his guitar and smiling beautifully 💌
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Harry Dean Stanton, Paris Texas, Wim Wenders, 1984
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