After wandering through the West Texas desert in Paris, Texas, in 1988 Wim Wenders swept his dreamlike sensibilities back East to Berlin, and into the perspective of a guardian angel (Bruno Ganz) that yearns to join the ranks of the living – especially after falling in love with a beautiful trapeze artist. As he makes his way, falteringly, back down to Earth, Peter Falk is his guide to the human condition. Featuring sumptuous black-and-white cinematography, Rilke-inspired meditations on the meaning of life and love, and a diegetic concert by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, this is maybe the most romantic existentialist film ever made. – Lina Fisher
