An Evening With Wim Wenders And Peter Handke
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The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
1971. Austria/West Germany. Directed by Wim Wenders. Screenplay by Wim Wenders, Peter Handke, based on Handke’s novel. With Arthur Brauss, Kai Fischer, Erika Pluhar, Rüdiger Vogler. Wenders’s second feature is a tautly constructed, Hitchcockian tale of anomie and isolation. After goalkeeper Josef Bloch is ejected from a football match, he wanders around Vienna, spends the night with a cinema cashier, and commits a seemingly purposeless crime. As always, Wenders’s use of music is unerringly precise and surprising—“The Lion Sleeps Tonight” as the anthem to an existential crisis?—and as Bloch puts another coin in the jukebox, the film charts his moral disintegration with a resolute lack of sentimentality. New digital restoration. In German; English subtitles. 100 min.