Alice in the cities
Alice in the cities ( Alice in den Städten ) is a German Film carried out by Wim Wenders in 1974.
Synopsis
Philipp Winter spends four weeks to survey the United States to write a text on the American landscape. However, it feels completely alienated oneself and its entourage: instead of writing, it does nothing but take hundreds of photographs with its camera polaroid. Soon, it must return to Germany because it does not have any more money. With the airport of New York, it becomes acquainted with an young woman, LISA, and of his Alice daughter, nine years old. There are no flights for Germany and they decide to wait together. The next morning, however, LISA disappeared, leaving only one note in which she requests Philipp to bring back Alice to Amsterdam where she hopes to join them later a few days. Arrived at Amsterdam, Philipp and Alice await LISA in vain. They decide to leave to research grandparents Alice who live with Wuppertal in Germany, according to the memory Alice. Since she does not remember any more the name of her grandmother, they must seek the house by surveying the city, with an old photograph for only guide. During their tour, they make the meeting of an young woman in whom they spend one night. Discouraged of their vain research, and because it cannot of it any more an young girl with affirmed the enough personality, Philipp demounting in a police station. But the young girl escapes from it, finds Philippe who agrees to continue the research of the family of Alice. Soon, the history will as find a conclusion surprising as, despite everything, optimistic.
Comment
This film, made in black and white, is remarkable for at least two things: its slow rate/rhythm which, while revealing a crowd of admirable details, in fact a true school of the glance, and the character of Alice, whose adorable impertinence gives to this film a singular lightness.
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