Alice in the Cities

Alice in the Cities German Alice in den Stdten is a 1974 German road movie directed by Wim Wenders. This was the first part of Wenders Road Movie Trilogy which included The Wrong Move 1975 and Kings of the Road 1976. The film is shot in black and white by Robby Mller with several long scenes without dialogue. The films theme closely foreshadows Wenders later film Paris, Texas.

According to Wenders, Alice in the Cities, his fourth featurelength film, came at a major turning point when he was deciding whether to remain a filmmaker. He felt that his first two features were too heavily indebted to John Cassavetes and Alfred Hitchcock, while his third was an illadvised adaptation of The Scarlet Letter. Alice in the Cities was a conscious attempt to make something only he could do.The scenario of a young girl and a writer thrown together was inspired by his longtime collaborator Peter Handkes experience as a single parent. The influence of Handkes 1972 novel Short Letter, Long Farewell, also featuring an alienated Germanspeaker travelling across the United States, can be inferred from the films use of clips from John Fords Young Mr. Lincoln, itself heavily referenced in the novel. The film can be seen as a response to Handkes novel. ........

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