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A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

Back to the finderTHE FILM / 1987
Wings of Desire posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE1987 2h 8m DEU

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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Wings of Desire

DramaFantasyRomance
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Like Wings of Desire, it finds spiritual weight in ordinary sensations, chance encounters, and a fragile longing for connection, using luminous images and an intimate, dreamlike rhythm.

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This is a similarly hushed, emotionally permeable meditation on lonely city lives, love, memory, and the ache of wanting to fully inhabit human connection.

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Why this pick

Wenders returns to reunified Berlin and the earthly angel's viewpoint, preserving the tender curiosity about flawed human lives, love, and the sensory pull of the world.

The Green Ray poster 05

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Why this pick

Without fantasy, it reaches a comparable state of spiritual attentiveness: an isolated woman moves through summer searching for a sign that might make connection and hope feel possible.

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

An angel tires of overseeing human activity and wishes to become human when he falls in love with a mortal.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Bruno Ganz

Damiel

Solveig Dommartin

Solveig Dommartin

Marion

Otto Sander

Otto Sander

Cassiel

Curt Bois

Homer

Peter Falk

Peter Falk

Peter Falk