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Paris, Texas
GERMANY · 1984

Paris, Texas

Wim Wenders
van sibling relationship amnesia road trip texas
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Synopsis

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

Cinema Atlas Connection
I wanted to find a way to create a landscape that will feel like a dream, something very American, like a Wim Wenders movie, like ‘Paris, Texas.’

I wanted to find a way to create a landscape that will feel like a dream, something very American, like a Wim Wenders movie, like 'Paris, Texas.'

— Denis Villeneuve  ·  IndieWire: Why Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Arrival’ is a Different Kind of Alien Invasion Movie
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