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The Rise and Fall (and continual Fall) of Wim Wenders
29 May 2008
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- When do the organizers of the Cannes film festival revoke the VIP card? When does the red carpet become off limits to folks who've worn out their welcome. Thus should be the case for German filmmaker Wim Wenders who received a Cannes main competition invite for his latest feature - a road movie that Variety described as "pretentious and inconsequential", and that many colleagues of mine walked out during the mid way mark of the official screening. With the exception of the Ry Cooder motivated docu film on Cuban musicians Buena Vista Social Club, many would argue that we haven't had anything to cheer about in the Wenders camp since 1987's Wings of Desire.
Among the five or so pictures that I did not bother with in the competition titles at Cannes this year is The Palermo
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