Weekend film: Winds of Desire / Der Himmel über Berlin

[alexandral]

It happened once... It happened once, and so it will be forever.

This is a wonderful film. It is a poem of a kind – I wish I could understand German so that I can appreciate it fully. I also wonder if monologues and dialogues had some rhyme in German, it just felt this way. This film isn’t easy to watch (for me) and it is very different from anything else I have seen. But you know, when sometimes you come across something what you have never seen or heard before, something very unique and at the same time so familiar to you?

The story is familiar from the later re-make of this film, “City of angels”: an angel longs for human life with it’s shortness and it’s beauty. I personally liked “City of Angels”, but for me the original “Wings of Desire” is much more then just the beautiful love story “City of Angels” is. “Wings of Desire” makes me want to go and do many, many things : tell people I love them, touch old trees, swim on the early morning in the cold, cold water, eat chocolate éclairs, go in the sledge from the top of the snowy hill all the way down. LIFE IS WONDERFUL!! But this film is not just about it neither. There is a sad and haunting undertone in the film – the history of Berlin, the past destruction of 1940’s and Berlin wall.



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Damien by Bruno Ganz: Not your average angel, but he has such an interesting face:

Marion by Solveig Dommartin: She is so beautiful (unusual style) and very sweet:

Comments

[lage-nom-ai.livejournal.com]

I lose all film cred because I don't like this film (gasp! I kind of enjoyed the remake, though that could be because U2 helps out the soundtrack). Even knowing the German doesn't make it less tedious for me (or maybe it was watching it in one too many college courses). I prefer my German films to be a little crazier and occasionally violent-while-slow, like Aguirre: der Zorn Gottes/Aguirre, the Wrath of God. Heh.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

You don't HAVE TO, you know ;) I thought this film isn’t easy to watch ;) , but I think i am going to keep thionking about it for a long, long time!

Even knowing the German doesn't make it less tedious for me This is wonderful (i mean knowing German part)! READING BOOKS IN GERMAN!

Aguirre: der Zorn Gottes/Aguirre, the Wrath of God. I checked it up and added to my Blockbuster list, thank you!

[lage-nom-ai.livejournal.com]

Heeee. Glad to be of service--hope you enjoy the film!

As for reading in German, I can but it is soooo slooooow for me, which makes me impatient. I try to keep my hand in by reading either poetry, or books translated into German, like Anne of Green Gables and the Guy Gavriel Kay books. Heee.

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

Aguirre is one of my very favorite movies ever! That final scene of Aguirre on the raft with the monkeys is indelibly imprinted on my brain.

[lage-nom-ai.livejournal.com]

Yes! At first I thought it was just insane, but it stuck with me and the next time I saw it I really dug it...

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

It is insane, really. Or he was, anyway. (And played by a crazy man, too.) But there's something so compelling about the story and the visuals that I bought in from the first.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Yay! INSANE film! I looove insane films .. !

[lage-nom-ai.livejournal.com]

Also--cool icon! Is that your tattoo?

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

Thank you. And yes. It's the Nazca monkey, and I flew over it when I was in Peru in 2002. I have a thing for monkeys anyway, but this one really captivated me. I bought jewelry and a painting, but finally I realized I needed to make it a part of me.

[lage-nom-ai.livejournal.com]

That is AWESOME.
I'm slightly obsessed with tattoos. I keep saying that I want one, but never actually follow through... and I hear they're addictive and I haven't quite figured out what image I really want.

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

I have two. My first is Chinese characters. I'd wanted a tattoo for a long time and finally got that one after I had a lumpectomy. It's above my scar, and I think of it as my talisman. They are kind of addictive, though, and I kept wanting another one that people could actually see, so ten years later I got my monkey just above my left anklebone. I figure if I can limit myself to one every ten years (actually, I think it was nine and a bit *g*), that's not too bad.

[lage-nom-ai.livejournal.com]

Yeah--I first got the desire for a tattoo after a small bout with skin cancer left me with a scar, and I wanted to choose a mark for my body. But then I want something that I can both see and that I can cover up for "business," and that's part of the slacking. :D
Did the anklebone one hurt? I hear mixed reviews about the pain factor, but I do have a high tolerance. And I toyed with getting a horseshoe on my ankle.

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

The ankle hurt more than the breast, but neither hurt a whole lot. And I think one reason it hurt more is simply because it was bigger (though still not big) and needed to be filled in, while the Chinese characters are just lines. I think if I'd gotten it right on the bone it would have been a lot more painful. I'm really glad I did it, though, if that helps you make up your mind.

[lage-nom-ai.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Thanks for answering all of my questions. :)

(And sorry for hijacking, alexandral!)

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Hee ! Thank you for interesting discussion! I dont' have tatoo , but i was ALWAYS wondering how much it hurts ;)