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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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    User reviews18

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    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.
    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.
    4kokkinoskitrinosmple

    Wenders's meditation about life and death

    Finn (Campino) is a German photographer. He is highly successful in his profession, but not in life. He can't quite put his finger on it, yet there's something missing and he is overwhelmed by dark thoughts. He decides to spend some time in Italy as an attempt to escape.

    Palermo Shooting is a movie heavy on symbolism and with a clear philosophical orientation, a meditation about life and death. However, its good looks are its strongest asset. The setting is once again in the spotlight for Wim Wenders, first beautiful Palermo and then the gorgeous landscapes of a small Italian village.

    The main character's interactions with Death are reminiscent of Bergman's The Seventh Seal, while his subjective way of experiencing reality and the use of special effects has a clear touch of German expressionism.

    It's easy to tell this was a very personal project for Wim Wenders, but still not everything works. The philosophical aspect isn't that interesting or original, the dialogue leaves a lot to be desired, the soundtrack felt a bit off.
    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.
    3richard_sleboe

    Because he could not stop for me, I kindly stopped for Death

    This is easily Wim Wender's most pretentious movie to date, and that's saying a lot given that Wenders is perhaps the most pretentious director of his generation. There is so much symbolic Mumbo-Jumbo I don't know where to begin: Dungeons. Coffins. Dead people. Ghosts. Including Lou Reed as a black-and-white specter of himself. Flocks of sheep. A shape-shifting city skyline. Hooded strangers, shooting arrows and causing crashes. All of which I have seen before, and with more panache: In "Dark City", in Cronenberg's "Crash", Paul Auster's "Lulu on the Bridge", Tom Tykwer's "Winter Sleepers", even in TV's "Lost". I'm not even mentioning "The Devil's Advocate". At the height of his self-importance, Wenders has Dennis Hopper, in the part of Death himself, make a speech about the merits of analog photography. Sounds ridiculous? Go figure. But the weakest link is Wender's choice of Campino as photographer Finn Gilbert, the lead character. Campino, a German rock star in his day job, may be photogenic in an aging toy boy way, but an actor he sure is not. Anything he says sounds like a line from a script, and the script is weak enough to begin with. Wenders asks too much of him, and too little of his co-lead Giovanna Mezzogiornio, a fine actress restricted to sleepy smiles and sullen glances in this movie. Charming guest appearances by Jana Pallaske as a feisty arts student, Inga Busch as a sexy swimming instructor in Ugg boots and a bathing suit, and by the divine Milla Jovovich as her glamorous self. Nice enough soundtrack, featuring Bonnie Prince Billy, Nick Cave, and The Velvet Underground. Watch with your eyes closed.

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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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