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Paris, Texas
After an absence of 4 years, Travis Henderson suddenly reappears in a deserted part of south Texas. His brother finds him, and together they return to L.A. to reunite Travis with his young son. Soon after, he and the boy set out to locate the mother of the child, who left shortly after he disappeared.
24 January 1961, Berlin, Germany
5 March 1936, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 May 1950, New York City, New York, USA
20 December 1953, San Jose, California, USA
14 December 1952, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA
23 August 1938, Syracuse, New York, USA
April 06, 2004
Paris, Texas uses the familiar thematic construct of the Western, and is conducted in somber nostalgia.
January 24, 2010
Paris, Texas may be missing a crucial piece of authentic Americana, but it still evokes an America most Americans yearn to gaze on.
February 14, 2010
one of Wenders's best films, a stirring portrait of people striving against their disconnect that resists simple answers even as it rewards our emotional investment.
June 14, 2004
Paris, Texas is that rare thing: a movie of intelligence and beauty and poetry, but also based on emotionally believable characters and a forward-moving, narrative thrust.
December 10, 2007
the evolution of a dream
November 20, 2008
Deservedly winning Cannes Fest top award, Wim Wenders' brilliant film is a personal meditation on the relative power of images and words, as well as a contribution to the modern Western and journey pictures as uniguely American genres.
March 18, 2015
The acting, Robby Müller cinematography, music and tone carry the day ...
December 30, 2005
Compelling contemporary Western.
October 16, 2013
[VIDEO ESSAY] Written by Sam Shepherd, and adapted by L.M. Kit Carson, the linear story for "Paris, Texas" contains the hallmarks of Shepherd's characteristic dramatic themes...
January 26, 2010
One of the few films that has captured the beauty of the American southwest in all its rolling desert glory.
May 24, 2017
...this vision of America is one of vast landscapes and fluorescent signs, the latter being almost as visually poetic as the former.
January 24, 2010
... the mix of [Wim] Wenders' sensibilities and love of American movies and Sam Shepard's spare writing and take on fractured American families creates a sublime vision.

