Stars: Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Harry Dean Stanton, Aurore Clement, Hunter Carson, Bernhard Wicki

Director: Wim Wenders

Summary: Winner of the grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984, the haunting story of an amnesiac's struggle to rebuild his shattered life. The screenplay was written by Sam Shepard. Music by Ry Cooder.

Winner of the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984, Wim Wenders's PARIS, TEXAS tells the haunting story of an amnesiac (Harry Dean Stanton) and his struggle to rebuild his shattered life. Featuring a story by Sam Shepard and a renowned score by Ry Cooder, the film also stars Nastassja Kinski and Dean Stockwell.

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Reviewed by: davybozal24-7
Posted on April 5, 2006 12:20 PM

Paris , Texas is probably Wim Wenders' most well known , critically
acclaimed , and successful movie , winning a number of international prizes including the Cannes Palm D' Or for Best Film in
1984 . This unusual road movie , with screenplay by acclaimed playwright Sam Shepard , tells the tale of Travis ( Harry Dean Stanton) , a man lost in his own private hell . Presumed dead for 4
years , he reappears from the desert on the Mexico border , world -
weary and an amnesiac . He traces his brother Walt who is bringing up Hunter , his 7 year old son , his ex-wife having abandoned him years earlier .

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Something like a perfect artistic union is achieved in the major components of Paris, Texas: the twang of Ry Cooder's guitar, the lonely light of Robbie Muller's camera, the craggy landscape of Harry Dean Stanton's face. In his greatest role, longtime character actor Stanton plays a man brought back to his old life after wandering in the desert (or somewhere) for four years. He has a 7-year-old son to get to know, and his wife has gone missing. The material is much in the wanderlust spirit of director Wim Wenders, working from a script by Sam Shepard and L.M. Kit Carson. If the long climactic conversation between Stanton and Nastassja Kinski renders the movie uneven and slightly inscrutable, it's hard to think of a more fitting ending--and besides, the achingly empty American spaces stick longer in the memory than the dialogue. Winner of the top prize at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. --Robert Horton

Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Deleted Scenes, Featurette On Wim Wenders And Klaus Kinski, Audio Commentary, Biographies, Filmographies, Photo Gallery
Year:	1984
Release Date:	September 2, 2002
Runtime:	139 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	A B W W D 27
Keywords:	Texas, Paris, General, Drama
Genre:	Drama