'Wings Of Desire'

I strongly recommend doing one thing before you watch Wings of Desire.

Read a summary of the film. Or read this blog post because I'm about to blow the doors wide off.

It took me three-quarters of the film to realize that the two main guys were angels "existing" on Earth to overhear people's thoughts and that Peter Falk used to be an angel before choosing feelings and life over immortality. I'm at a spot now that I really just want to re-watch it.

It is an interesting plot and I think its pulled off pretty well. Slow at times, there are really interesting and investible characters, characters in need of a little love.

The film is a bit of a who's who showcase. The screenplay was done by noted Austrian writer Peter Handke. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds plays a set in a club scene. And the cinematographer was Henri Alekan, the Frenchman that worked with Jean Cocteau on the 1946 film Beauty and the Beast and who, ironically, fell out of favor in French cinema during the New Wave movement of the 1950s and did a bunch of conventional American films and only three during the 1970s.

The cinematography in Wings of Desire is exceptional, which is the only reason to bring it up.