Wings of Desire

Wings of Desire

Wings of Desire

Wings of Desire is a magnificently urban film. Part of its power is its proficiency to remind the textures of the town, the tempos of its diversity, its heteroglossia. As Wenders conceives them, angels are the supreme flaneurs. While customary flaneurs (Baudelaire, for example) had to navigate the city's roads mostly on base and were restricted to public locations like cafes, stores and reserves, Damiel can proceed instantly from the familiarity of a bedroom to a kiss on a congested road to the central of a racing ambulance. While Baudelaire is confined to assembling the ...