December, 13 2023 | 7:00 pm

305 South Campbell Avenue Springfield, Missouri 65806
https://moxiecinema.com/films/wings-of-desire-1987

This monthly series at the Moxie Cinema showcases “essential arthouse” films everyone should see on the big screen. Arthouse is a film genre which encompasses films where the content and style – often artistic or experimental – adhere with as little compromise as possible to the filmmakers’ personal artistic vision.

Wings of Desire is one of cinema’s loveliest city symphonies. Bruno Ganz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts—fears, hopes, dreams—of all the people living below. But when he falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, he is willing to give up his immortality and come back to earth to be with her. Made not long before the fall of the Berlin wall, this stunning tapestry of sounds and images, shot in black and white and color by the legendary Henri Alekan, is movie poetry. And it forever made the name Wim Wenders synonymous with film art. [Janus]

Starring: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander
Director: Wim Wenders
Genre(s): Drama, Fantasy, Romance