
Despite 40 years of moviemaking, a cabinet of European awards and still finding time to direct everything from U2 music videos to Carling TV ads, Wim Wenders has always been a drifter in his own cinema of loneliness. His triple-A obsessions (“Alienation, Angst and America”) found mesmerising emotional landscapes in The American Friend (1977), Paris, Texas (1984) and Wings Of Desire (1987). But outside these lyrical belters, this 10-disc doorstop shows the German auteur struggling to shovel meaning into his woozy, wide-open spaces.
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