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

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)

Trailer

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