“Wings of Desire”
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Peter Falk
Wim Wenders’ 1987 film touches upon virtually every human emotion with truth and heavenly nuance; Wings of Desire is the story of angels, memory, and love. The film is also a visual love letter to Berlin, and all of its past transgressions. It’s a loose story that takes its time following two angels, Damiel (Ganz) and Cassiel (Sander). We view their daily routine of watching citizens of Berlin live daily. They absorb the thoughts and actions of these people; looking in from time to time and gathering notes or stories about human life that they share with each other.
Damiel, whom is already longing for more complex emotions, rather than those of his own kind, begins to fall for a female trapeze artist whom is lost within. The woman is Marion, natural in beauty, and empty with the hopes of connection and purpose. Wings of Desire maintains its identity throughout. It’s a love letter to cinema, and possesses a patient buildup of perspective, identity, and longing.
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