Paris, Texas

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dir. Wim Wenders
screenplay Sam Shepard

Need I say more?

starring the double Dean threat (Stanton and Stockwell), a young Nastassja Kinksi, a sexy middle-aging French lady, and some little kid who actually avoids being annoying (and isn't it very difficult for a child to have a prominent role in a movie and not be totally obnoxiously annoying...), and above all starring the American desert (including that of the cities of L.A. and Houston themselves as the desert).

the scene near the end in "the talking booth" (the last such scene) is, well, as close to the aesthetically sublime as acting the lines of broken lives/dreams can get without touching melodrama?

to repeat: Wim Wenders, director, Sam Shepard, writer. Need I say more?

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Okay, I will say more.

Kinski's character is, literally, the mother-virgin-whore.

The lead actor does an astonishing performance, which makes it surprising that he hasn't done all that much more than supporting roles since then (1984).

This movie is to the bittersweet what Carrie is the bloodbath.