Wings Of Desire (1987) Eng subs 720p | Der Himmel uber Berlin | Wim Wenders

Drama | Fantasy | Romance | West Germany | German w/Eng subs | B&W/Colour | 128min | Dir: Wim Wenders Two angels, Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander), glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion (Solveig Dommartin), the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds that it might just be possible for him to take human form. Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire is a remarkable modern fairy tale about the nature of being alive. The angels witness the gamut of human emotions, and they experience the luxury of simple pleasures as ones who've never known them. From the angels' viewpoint, Berlin is seen in gorgeous black-and-white -- strikingly beautiful but unreal; when they join the humans, the image shifts to rough but natural-looking color, and the waltz-like grace of the angels' drift through the city changes to a harsher rhythm. The film's pacing and ethereal camera movements only help to magnify the angelic tranquility. Wenders challenges us to rethink how we view our world, and our place in it.