State of Things, The

Germany 1982, 125 minutes, B/W
Dir. Wim Wenders
In English, German with English subtitles
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Drama

Feat. Patrick Bauchau, Samuel Fuller, Roger Corman

Aroview: Reliving the personal turmoil of his first American production (HAMMETT), Wenders fashions a scathing yet oddly comedic film-within-a-film, dramatising the woes of a fictional European auteur’s attempts to shoot a remake of Roger Corman’s DAY THE WORLD ENDED under the dictatorial gaze of Hollywood producers. Samuel Fuller plays a crack cinematographer.

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2 stars (Good Try) Most of the screenplay is uninteresting and claustrophobic until the main protagonist visits LA where although there are some "on the road" segments it is only LA and not some interesting European city. The soundtrack is good. ~Tubbs