Palermo Shooting (2008)

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Director:

Wim Wenders

Writers:

Wim Wenders (writer) and
Norman Ohler (co-writer) ...

Release Date:

20 November 2008 (Germany)

Genre:

Drama

Plot Keywords:

Place Name In Title | City Name In Title | Fast Motion Sequence | Photographer | Death

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Campino	...	Finn
Inga Busch	...	Karla
Axel Sichrovsky	...	Hans
Gerhard Gutberlet	...	Gerhard
Harry Blain	...	Harry
Sebastian Blomberg	...	Julian
Jana Pallaske	...	Student
Olivia Asiedu-Poku	...	Fan
Melika Foroutan	...	Anke
Anna Orso	...	Mother
Lou Reed	...	Himself
Udo Samel	...	Banker
Guiseppe Provinzano	...	Actor 1
Guiseppe Massa	...	Actor 2
Giovanna Mezzogiorno	...	Flavia

Also Known As:

Palermo Story (Italy) (working title)
Rendez-vous à Palerme (France)

Runtime:

France:124 min (Cannes Film Festival) | 108 min (re-cut version)

Country:

Germany | France | Italy

Language:

English | German | Italian

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Germany:12 | Portugal:M/12 (Qualidade)

Filming Locations:

Düsseldorf, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany

Company:

Neue Road Movies

Trivia:

The film marks the first time that Director Wenders shot a movie in his hometown, Düsseldorf.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: In the scene, when Finn talks with lady photographer, they discuss the age of their cameras. He tells that his Plaubel is twenty years old and she tells that her Leica is 40 years old. Actually she has Leica M7, which slightly differs from older Leica cameras. This camera marketed only in 2002.

Movie Connections:

References Blowup (1966)

Soundtrack:

Amuri

life in a rectangle

image - still and moving - digital - film - panorama - window - painting. how is the world described in photographic/image capture? who sees? framing. who is seeing? what is seen? what is shown? dreams. i am a camera. this is maybe an over extension of the metaphor, but clearly states the idea of the seer seeing. audience. and the seer showing. story through experience, not always linear or real. and always - great views of the city. great mix of language & languages. vision. so much feeling, showing and not telling. faces, moments, real, unreal... "I watch it for a little while = I love to watch things on TV" this was interesting to see in las vegas, of all the places in the world.