Cinema: Wim Wenders, 80 years of independence celebrated at organic

A cinema monument, Wim Wenders is one of those elusive and jack-of-all-trades who have continued to renew themselves in form and substance during their career, however, keeping a kind of irreducible poetry. Fictions, theaters, documentaries … Whether in Germany, Japan, Cuba, the United States or Brazil, his filmography has his share of essential masterpieces. Most of them are projected at the Organic Cinema in Carouge from today.

Wim Wenders, the traveler filmmaker

It was said, in around thirty films, Wim Wenders turned around the world. Of course, first in Germany, his homeland. Coming to the world at the end of the Second World War, the young Wilhelm, son of a surgeon, first studied medicine, before falling in love with the seventh art. Monnau, Lang but also Ozu: his passion takes him to the School of Cinema in Munich, where he made his start and especially his first film, “Summer in the City”.

Before exploding with “Alice in the cities” in 1974, Wim Wenders adapted two books to the cinema: “The anxiety of the goalkeeper at the time of the penalty”, by Peter Handke, and “The scarlet letter”, from Nathaniel Hawthorne. Works that have nothing to do with it, and that say a lot about the director’s multidisciplinary capacity.

It was not until 1977 for its first achievement outside the walls of Western Germany, with “the American friend”, illustrating a Dennis Hopper in the firmament. Which makes us think that Wim Wenders has shot with a hell of a pack of international talents: Rüdiger Vogler, Lisa Kreuzer, Nastassja Kinski (in brunette and blonde), Jeanne Moreau, Bruno Ganz (in the magnificent “The Wings of Desire”), Peter Stormare, Harry Dean Stanton and even, more recently, James Franco.

Wandering at the heart of his cinema and his art

Wim Wenders also went through all the arts: photography (to which he pays tribute to “The Salt of the Earth”, “Alice in cities”, or in particular “the state of things”), dance (“Pina”), haute couture (“notebooks of notes on clothing and cities”), literature (“The beautiful days of Aranjuez”, “Hammett”), without forgetting the painting ( Edward Hopper in his filmography). But art truly sublimated in its films remains the cinema itself. Wim Wenders summons here and there the great figures of the seventh art in its stories.

From Wim Wenders, we mainly remember the images: Bruno Ganz in Angel on the city, Dennis Hopper driving at night, and of course, for eternity, Nastassja Kinski, dressed in a pink sweater, in “Paris, Texas”. Go for organic to take advantage of these masterpieces on the big screen.

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