A cult film, a doc on an unforgettable actress and an overwhelming French film: 100 % film buff on television this evening.
Posted on August 18, 2025 at 6:50 am
Mythical: “Paris, Texas”
Nastassja Kinski in “Paris, Texas”. A stylized purity that devoted Wim Wenders: Palme d’Or and beautiful public success. Photo Argos Films
A man in a suit and red cap alone, haggard, with a decided step, in the Mojave desert crushed by the sun. A woman in red angora sweater in her peep show cabin. Forty years after its golden palm in Cannes, the film did not have a bit of age.
At 8:55 p.m. on Arte. Film directed by Wim Wenders (Germany, France 1984). 2h40. With Nastassja Kinski, Harry Dean Stanton. Replay.
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“Paris, Texas”, by Wim Wenders: a bewitching trip to the land of melancholy
Living free: “Nastassja Kinski, a life to oneself”
Nastassja Kinski on the set of “The Moon in the Grip” (1983) by Jean-Jacques Beinex. Photo Etienne Georges/Gaumont/Coll. Christophel/Arte
His dreadful childhood, the divorce of his parents, wandering with his mother for several years, before being spotted by Wim Wenders (for False movement1973), its role in Tessfrom Polanski (1979)… A portrait that also addresses the complexity of his emancipation.
At 11:20 p.m. on Arte. Documentary by Marie-Gabrielle Fabre (France, 2023). 55mn. Unpublished.
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The documentary “Nastassja Kinski, a life to oneself”: a portrait of a turning woman
Mourning and Renaissance: “The high school student”
Juliette Binoche and Paul Kircher who plays Lucas, 17, in mourning of her father and in search of love. Photo Jean-Louis Fernandez/Les Films Pelléas
A high school student today learns of the death of his father. Between collapse and Renaissance, Christophe Honoré revisits in the present, and with Panache, a key moment of his adolescence, also mentioned in his show The sky of Nantes. A great initiatory story.
At 11 p.m. on France 3. Film by Christophe Honoré. (France, 2022). 2h. With Paul Kircher, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Lacoste, Erwan Kepoa Falée. Replay
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“The high school student”, Christophe Honoré revisits his adolescence with Panache
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