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Paris, Texas

Movie · 1984 · 147 min

A quiet, wandering journey through loss and half-remembered love that slowly opens into aching tenderness and regret.

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1984 film directed by Wim Wenders
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Year
1984
Runtime
147 min
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • family
  • isolation
  • redemption
  • love
Places
  • road trip
  • big city
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour2
Realism8
Romance5
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight9

Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Wim Wenders
Written by
Sam Shepard, L. M. Kit Carson
Starring
Nastassja Kinski, Harry Dean Stanton, Dean Stockwell, Bernhard Wicki, John Lurie, Aurore Clément, Viva, Hunter Carson
Music
Ry Cooder
Cinematography
Robby Müller
Runtime
147 min
Country
France, Germany
Languages
Spanish, English

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