PARIS, TEXAS
Wim Wenders | 1984 | Drama | 2h 25m | M
A haunting, beautiful road movie about love, loss and the fragile possibility of finding your way home.
After disappearing without explanation for four years, Travis Henderson emerges from the Texas desert, silent, exhausted and seemingly disconnected from the world. His brother Walt takes him in and slowly helps him reconnect with Hunter, the young son Travis left behind.
As father and son begin to rebuild their relationship, they set out across the American Southwest in search of Hunter’s mother, Jane. What begins as a journey through vast highways, motels and empty landscapes gradually becomes something far more intimate: an attempt to confront the past and understand what remains of a family that has fallen apart.
Directed by Wim Wenders, written by Sam Shepard, and featuring unforgettable performances from Harry Dean Stanton and Nastassja Kinski, Paris, Texas is visually extraordinary. Robby Müller’s cinematography transforms the American landscape into a world of neon, desert skies and lonely roads, while Ry Cooder’s sparse slide-guitar score has become inseparable from the film.
Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, Paris, Texas has grown into one of the defining films of 1980s independent cinema: melancholy, mysterious and deeply human.
Starring: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clément & Hunter Carson
Director: Wim Wenders
Screenplay: Sam Shepard & L. M. Kit Carson
Music: Ry Cooder
Cinematography: Robby Müller
🎬 A landmark of modern cinema, best experienced on the big screen.