‘Paris, Texas : 40 Years On’
By Alex Robson- Senior News Editor
‘L'homme est une idée, et une précieuse petite idée, dès qu'il tourne le dos à l'amour.’
(Man is an idea, and a precious little idea at that, the moment he turns his back on love.)
-Albert Camus
Wim Wenders’ chef d’eouvre, ‘Paris, Texas’ (1984), is a deeply powerful reflection of man. Overcome by loss, guilt, and isolation, our protagonist, Travis (Harry Dean Stanton), must return to an equally dissociated and ever-changing Los Angeles to rediscover his family. As a prominent Euro-American picture, its plot becomes poetry, a protagonist lost in the vast, roseate and unchanging desert; a moving portrait that quickly resembles a Burroughs novel. It is both an ode to a time passed and a love letter to the importance of human interaction in an ...