Alice in the Cities (1974)
- Original title
- Alice in den Städten
- Directed by
- Wim Wenders
- Genre
- drama film, road movie
- Country
- Germany
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Rated
- 6
- Rating
- 7.7 of 10 from 345 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A writer stranded in a foreign country takes on the care of a young girl. Together they search for her grandmother across German cities. Their journey is guided only by the girl's vague recollections.
melancholicslow-burnwanderingcontemplativequietbleakintrospectiveminimalist
What happens
Alice in the Cities (German: Alice in den Städten) is a 1974 German road movie directed by Wim Wenders. It is the first part of Wenders' "Road Movie trilogy", which also includes The Wrong Move (1975) and Kings of the Road (1976). The film was shot in black and white by Robby Müller, and contains several long scenes without dialogue. In the film, a professional writer loses a job due to his inability to complete an assignment. When he tries to travel to Munich, a stranger entrusts her daughter to his care and then disappears, and the duo search for the girl's estranged grandmother, aided only by the girl's hazy memories. The film's theme has been said to foreshadow Wenders' later film Paris, Texas (1984). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Kings of the Road (1976)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.