Wenders’s fantasy of angels in Berlin before the end of the Cold War takes flight on 4K UHD.
Criterion delivers a robust package for Wenders’s trilogy, a breakthrough moment in the New German Cinema.
Even for non-fanatics, this packaging of perhaps the most beloved European film of a generation is heaven-sent.
The grand theme of Wim Wenders’s film is storytelling in all its forms as a coping mechanism of the human race.
First, a note on terminology: contrapuntal narration is a specific type of narration that is not merely decorative or functional.