The Wrong Move

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The Wrong Move

1975,

1h 35m,

Drama

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71%

7 Reviews

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63%

250+ Ratings

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7 Reviews

63%

Popcornmeter

250+ Ratings

A young German man who decides to become a writer, Wilhelm Meister (Rudiger Vogler) sets off on a journey of self-discovery. During his travels, he encounters various fascinating characters, including the beautiful Therese (Hanna Schygulla), the intriguing young Mignon (Nastassja Nakszynski), and a poet named Landau (Peter Kern). When the group accompanies Landau on a visit to his uncle, they mistakenly end up at the home of a wealthy but forlorn stranger (Ivan Desny).

Jonathan Romney

Film Comment Magazine

Apr 15, 2016

Everything in Wrong Move happens as if by magic-or as if previously written in the pages of another book. While situated in a mundanely real modern Germany, the narrative is entirely anti-realistic.

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Michael Atkinson

Village Voice

Apr 14, 2016

A bitter, deadpan parody of all things Romantic, Wenders's film is also so ironic about its own emptiness that it ends up being something pure: a pop dirge about how never sitting still may be the only answer to meaninglessness.

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Richard Brody

The New Yorker

Apr 11, 2016

Wenders looks at young rockers through a lens of high culture and applies the theatrical fervor of the Enlightenment to the rumpled rounds of modern buskers.

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

Oct 8, 2020

3.5/5

Angsty and languorous, time has granted the film a rather potent mixture of melancholy and historical significance, which enhances a seemingly glacial pace of continuous walking and talking about poetry, dreams, and loneliness.

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A.S. Hamrah

n+1

May 1, 2018

The cast and Robby Müller's color cinematography give the film a strange feeling that sets it apart from Wenders's other road movies.

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James Kendrick

Q Network Film Desk

Jun 16, 2016

2/4

arch and self-consciously arty in its depiction of alienated characters, none of whom feel like flesh-and-blood human beings

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Rudiger Vogler

Wilhelm

Hanna Schygulla

Therese Farner

Hans Christian Blech

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Peter Kern

Bernhard Landau

Nastassja Kinski

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Synopsis

A young German man who decides to become a writer, Wilhelm Meister (Rudiger Vogler) sets off on a journey of self-discovery. During his travels, he encounters various fascinating characters, including the beautiful Therese (Hanna Schygulla), the intriguing young Mignon (Nastassja Nakszynski), and a poet named Landau (Peter Kern). When the group accompanies Landau on a visit to his uncle, they mistakenly end up at the home of a wealthy but forlorn stranger (Ivan Desny).

Director: Wim Wenders
Producer: Bernd Eichinger, Peter Genee
Screenwriter: Peter Handke
Genre: Drama
Original Language: German
Release Date (Streaming): May 31, 2016
Runtime: 1h 35m

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