Paris, Texas

Plot

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

About Paris, Texas

Paris, Texas is a 1984 drama road film directed by Wim Wenders, co-written by Sam Shepard and L. M. Kit Carson, and produced by Don Guest. A co-production of West Germany, France, and the United Kingdom, it stars Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clément, and Hunter Carson. In the film, Travis Henderson (Stanton) reunites with his brother Walt (Stockwell) and son Hunter (Carson) after an unexplained four-year absence. At the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, the film won the Palme d'Or from the official jury, as well as the FIPRESCI Prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. It went on to receive other honors and widespread critical acclaim for its direction, screenplay, acting, cinematography, emotional resonance, and musical score. It has become a cult classic and is widely considered one of the greatest films ever made. It has been called an exemplar of both independent cinema and the road film. In the decennial critics' poll published by the British Film Institute's magazine Sight and Sound in 2022, Paris, Texas placed 185th.

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