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Rendez-vous à Palerme

Original title: Palermo Shooting
  • 2008
  • 2h 4m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
3.3K
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Rendez-vous à Palerme (2008)
Drama

After the wild life-style of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman help hi... Read allAfter the wild life-style of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman help him calm himself down?After the wild life-style of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman help him calm himself down?

  • Director
    • Wim Wenders
  • Writers
    • Wim Wenders
    • Norman Ohler
    • Bernd Lange
  • Stars
    • Campino
    • Giovanna Mezzogiorno
    • Dennis Hopper
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.1/10
    3.3K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Wim Wenders
    • Writers
      • Wim Wenders
      • Norman Ohler
      • Bernd Lange
    • Stars
      • Campino
      • Giovanna Mezzogiorno
      • Dennis Hopper
    • 18User reviews
    • 31Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 2 nominations total

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    Campino
    • Finn
    Giovanna Mezzogiorno
    Giovanna Mezzogiorno
    • Flavia
    Dennis Hopper
    Dennis Hopper
    • Frank
    Inga Busch
    • Karla
    Axel Sichrovsky
    • Hans
    Gerhard Gutberlet
    • Gerhard
    Harry Blain
    • Harry
    Sebastian Blomberg
    Sebastian Blomberg
    • Julian
    Jana Pallaske
    Jana Pallaske
    • Student
    Olivia Asiedu-Poku
    • Fan
    Melika Foroutan
    Melika Foroutan
    • Anke
    Anna Orso
    • Mother
    Lou Reed
    Lou Reed
    • Self
    Udo Samel
    Udo Samel
    • Banker
    Giuseppe Provinzano
    • Actor 1
    Giuseppe Massa
    • Actor 2
    Patrizia Schiavone
    • Market Woman
    Letizia Battaglia
    • Photographer
    • Director
      • Wim Wenders
    • Writers
      • Wim Wenders
      • Norman Ohler
      • Bernd Lange
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    8lester-alfonso

    Stylish Trip-to-Italy Film a Hidden Gem

    A big-budget feature film version of a mixtape: the conceit of letting the audience hear what the protagonist's personal playlist sounds like in their head when they wear their earbuds was executed very well by the seemingly arbitrary song selection to juxtapose with the action. It never felt like a "music video" yet this film has the look and all the trappings. I've been a fan of Wim Wenders for a long time but I somehow missed this one on its first release. The dream sequences are quite unique and effective; this film is Wenders as a cinema stylist. The film has an advertising gloss with the kind of patchwork of collage. I had no expectations coming into the film but I knew that I wasn't in the mood for anything intense. I got want I wanted. It's a visually stunning but understated trip-to-Italy film and I felt like I discovered a hidden gem. A must for any fan of Lou Reed; a decade later perhaps it's time to re-watch Palermo Shooting.
    9johnpetersca

    I liked it a lot

    I can't add much to hpark5's fine comments (though I'd encourage him or her to make use of paragraph breaks) so I won't attempt a full review of Palermo Shooting. I will mention, however, that when I saw the film at the Berlin and Beyond Film Festival in San Francisco, it was received enthusiastically by an audience of over a thousand people in a packed theater.

    Wim Wenders was present and answered questions after the film. The things he said were exceptionally thoughtful and responsive. Although his work may be uneven because of his willingness to take risks, I thought Palermo Shooting a major success. Wender's integration of the death theme with Palermo's ancient and decaying physical environment was especially impressive.

    To me, the crucial moment of the film occurs when Finn, the photographer, asks Death what he can do for him. Death says that no one has asked him this before and that the only thing that he can do is to live well for the rest of his life.
    8blemschock-2

    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.
    6mgr2000

    an interesting failure

    I saw it yesterday at a late evening screening in Los Angeles with Wenders in-attendance, and he did an intro and stayed for a Q&A afterward (which ended at 1:30am!)

    I'd describe Palermo Shooting as an interesting failure, though with some good stuff in it. And not as a worst-ever film, or even as awful like some folks. Also interesting to me was how the naturalistic Wenders of "Paris, Texas" days has embraced modern CGI effects.

    Dennis Hopper, in his last role, was very good in a small but important supporting part in the very last scene of the film (don't walk out early or quit watching, cause you'd miss Hopper).

    It's kind of a 3 act play defining by its locations: Act 1. Dusseldorf, Act 2. Palermo, Act 3. Gangi.

    Not one of Wenders good ones. But if it had some editing-out of some of the more pretentious musing stuff, and general tightening-up, and a bit of clarification here and there, it could've been pretty good. Too bad...

    For a long and detailed plot summary, see the German Wikipedia page (worthwhile to do even putting up with Google Chrome's German-to-English translation.) It helped clarify a lot for me. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palermo_Shooting (Note: the English Wikipedia page was very minimal).
    5kolo-5

    Better if this was a silent movie

    I just saw the movie in International Film Festival of Durrës, eager as I was for another Wim Wenders experience. And I left the theater with mixed feelings. Images were so good, bur the story was so cheap. The apology of Death at the end of the movie was awful, as if written by a 15 years scholar. So was the dialogue with the shepherd. Cheap and cliché ideas about death and life. The presence in the story of G. Mezzogiorno was senseless and not justified at all. The story of a photographer that takes a shoot of Death, is not bad, whatsoever. But it surely didn't to be treated as in child books, with death coming towards you and moralizing about life and death. And above all, the pregnant Milla, pretending deeper art in VIP Photo shooting, gave a sense of pity. No worth seeing it twice.

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    • Trivia
      The film marks the first time that Director Wenders shot a movie in his hometown, Düsseldorf.
    • Goofs
      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.
    • Connections
      Featured in Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider (2016)
    • Soundtracks
      Dream (Song for Finn)
      Written by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis

      Performed by Grinderman

      Published by Mute Song Ltd. 2008

      Courtesy of Cave/Ellis 2008

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    • Release date
      • November 20, 2008 (Germany)
    • Countries of origin
      • Germany
      • France
      • Italy
    • Official sites
      • Official site (Japan)
      • Senator Film (Germany)
    • Languages
      • English
      • German
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • Palermo Shooting
    • Filming locations
      • Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
    • Production companies
      • Neue Road Movies
      • P.O.R. Sicilia
      • Arte France Cinéma
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $580,203
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    • Runtime
      • 2h 4m(124 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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