Paris, Texas

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Paris, Texas

R

Released Nov 18, 1984

2h 25m

Drama

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A disheveled man who wanders out of the desert, Travis Henderson (Harry Dean Stanton) seems to have no idea who he is. When a stranger manages to contact his brother, Walt (Dean Stockwell), Travis is awkwardly reunited with his sibling. Travis has been missing for years, and his presence unsettles Walt and his family, which also includes Travis's own son, Hunter (Hunter Carson). Soon Travis must confront his wife, Jane (Nastassja Kinski), and try to put his life back together.

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Critics Consensus

A quiet yet deeply moving kind of Western, Paris, Texas captures a place and people like never before (or after).

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Kevin Maher

Times (UK)

The panoramic vistas from the cinematographer Robby Müller are as breathtaking as any John Ford western, while the naturalistic performances and deft narrative structure make this the strongest movie in the career of its director, Wim Wenders.

Sep 14, 2023

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

... An eerie, sad story whose meaning disappears over the vast horizon as if on a highway heading away through the desert.

Rated: 5/5

Jul 27, 2022

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Joe Pollack

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

It's a striking, gripping film for most of its length, with Wenders and cinematographer Robby Muller showing a great love of and fascination for the land -- almost as if their European upbringings had made them slightly envious of the wide-open spaces.

Oct 7, 2021

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Jacob Austin

PopMatters

In Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas, Travis is adrift, caught in the comma between the liminal Paris and the redemptive Texas, between lost futures and the impermeable present.

Jun 15, 2024

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

It transcends [Wenders'] usual road movie archetypes and pressing alienation, and it enters the realm of an almost mythic quest for healing and reconciliation after the emotional fallout of masculine violence.

Rated: 4/4

Aug 31, 2023

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

Most of the performances hit every right note especially Stanton, Kinski, and young Carson. All of this is brought together under the management of Wenders who tells a living, breathing story free of contrivances and artifice.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 24, 2022

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Fabio R

This film is absolutely devastating. A first-class masterpiece.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/11/24

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julio w

This man walks and walks until he forgets everything in real life to get rid of his despair and loneliness. Very touching film. The plot, visual, pace, dialog and acting are perfect. I'm speechless to describe how is this movie so great

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

10/11/24

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Ben T

The emperor has no clothes. How the hell did this get rated so high is beyond me. nothing happens for two and a half hours, absolutely nothing. I kept waiting for a great payoff I should have turned that movie off 10 hours ago. I will never get my time back. I swear this was some plot by all the elites.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

09/28/24

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Audience Member

Slow to watch, boring story, uninteresting cinematography..

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

09/21/24

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Audience Member

Based on the 93% rating, I just wasted 2.5 hrs of my life watching one of the worse and most boring movies I have ever seen. You ever watch a movie waiting for something to happen? About one hour into it, I said to my wife, "this is one of the most irritating movies that I have ever seen". She said wait, something will happen. Well, nothing ever happened. And I am really not sure what the point of the film was, nor do I care. Complete torture. The reviews are a joke.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

06/03/24

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Yash B

"Paris, Texas" is one of those films that I would describe as quiet but powerful. The movie seems simple enough with the premise, but it gets more and more complex as we learn more about the characters. I think the performances are very good in this and I found myself getting a lot out of the actors' facial expressions, which is always an impressive feat when it comes to acting. I do think the movie took a little while to grab my interest properly since it is a slower-paced film, but I will say once I was invested, I felt engaged until the very end. Overall, it is a classic movie from the 80s that really will stick with me and is made in a creative and unique way.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

05/27/24

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Nastassja Kinski

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Dean Stockwell

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Anne Henderson

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Synopsis

A disheveled man who wanders out of the desert, Travis Henderson (Harry Dean Stanton) seems to have no idea who he is. When a stranger manages to contact his brother, Walt (Dean Stockwell), Travis is awkwardly reunited with his sibling. Travis has been missing for years, and his presence unsettles Walt and his family, which also includes Travis's own son, Hunter (Hunter Carson). Soon Travis must confront his wife, Jane (Nastassja Kinski), and try to put his life back together.

Director: Wim Wenders
Producer: Don Guest, Anatole Dauman
Screenwriter: L.M. Kit Carson, Sam Shepard
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: 20th Century Fox
Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 18, 1984, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 23, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $236.0K
Runtime: 2h 25m

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