Les ailes du désir

Titre original : Der Himmel über Berlin

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Un ange se lasse de superviser les activités humaines et souhaite devenir humain lorsqu'il tombe amoureux d'un mortel.Un ange se lasse de superviser les activités humaines et souhaite devenir humain lorsqu'il tombe amoureux d'un mortel.Un ange se lasse de superviser les activités humaines et souhaite devenir humain lorsqu'il tombe amoureux d'un mortel.

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7,9/10

80 k

MA NOTE

POPULARITÉ

2 944

349

Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro

Nomination aux 1 BAFTA Award
- 18 victoires et 14 nominations au total

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Anecdotes
In the closing titles it says: "Dedicated to all the former angels, but especially to Yasujiro, François and Andrej." This refers to film directors Yasujirô Ozu, François Truffaut, and Andrei Tarkovsky. All were favorites of director Wim Wenders. At the time of this movie's filming, Truffaut and Tarkovsky had only recently passed away, in 1984 and 1986, respectively; Ozu died in 1963.

Gaffes
When Cassiel (Otto Sander) is crossing the street, a bus slows down to allow him to cross the road, then accelerates once he's clear. As Cassiel is an invisible angel, the bus driver shouldn't have been able to see him.

Citations
Damiel: When the child was a child, it was the time of these questions. Why am I me, and why not you? Why am I here, and why not there? When did time begin, and where does space end? Isn't life under the sun just a dream? Isn't what I see, hear, and smell just the mirage of a world before the world? Does evil actually exist, and are there people who are really evil? How can it be that I, who am I, wasn't before I was, and that sometime I, the one I am, no longer will be the one I am?

Crédits fous
Dedicated to all the former angels, but especially to Yasujiro, François and Andrej.

Connexions
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Red Heat/A World Apart/Rikky and Pete/Poltergeist III/Wings of Desire (1988)

Bandes originales
Zirkusmusik
by Laurent Petitgand

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9/10

Our Town for the Cold War Generation

If my grandchildren ever ask me what it was like back in the Cold War, I'll tell them to watch this movie. It is both frighteningly bleak and lyrically beautiful. It captures the spirit of the times (Western civilization immediately before the fall of the Berlin Wall) better than any movie I've ever seen. And it manages to be a love letter to those times while also showing the place and time in all its inescapable ugliness.

The overall plot moves forward pretty nicely for a movie where plot doesn't seem to matter all that much, and there are some beautiful vignettes, beautifully photographed, acted, and directed. I'm not sure how anyone can make it through the movie without falling in love with Bruno Ganz's angel. I think the movie's lyricism holds up well on multiple viewing -- as long as you liked it the first time. If the self-consciously art-house form bugs you, however, or you find the screenplay's "poetry" to be too facile, you'll probably find this movie grating. I, however, have never seen people reading silently in a public library without thinking of this movie . . . .