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Wim Wenders' Palermo Shooting "wants to be a philosophical film, which not only life, love and death negotiate, but the Authentic par. Anke Westphal was as a spectator but never really dock.

Most people are afraid of death. We can not change the cinema - even if it is the death still leaves look so glamorous. After all, it looks like that then. Breathtaking is about how the rabid beautiful actress Maria Casares in Jean Cocteaus film "Orphée" the underworld in an elegant New Look of the postwar period governed - here than meets the princess's death a la Dior on. The German film is something hardly conceivable, certainly not in the present. Joseph Vilsmaier in "Story of Brandner Kaspar" is the gruesome godfather not only from the likes of Michael "Bully" Herbig - it sounds so.

There is one Wim Wenders, but directly grateful once again - not just for the fact that he is one of the few German directors, which in their work seriously with issues of transcendence and spirituality issues. There is also grateful to him that he is not the death of any Knatterkomiker, by Martina Gedeck or Veronica Ferres embody it, but by a man who simply can be present without having something to say or do. This man is Dennis Hopper.

In "Palermo Shooting" Dennis Hopper plays the death. That speaks well for Wenders' new film here as the negotiated sense questions. Hopper is here as a major endpoint all splendor Bleicher himself a great splendor - an enigmatic, but not inaccessible creature in a bright suit, with white hair and clear view. This death is the players of the opposite hip and successful, but not more Smell fashion photographers, the Berufspopanarchist Campino from the dead trousers with a slightly awkward coolness there. We see this first Finn to send in his loft hanging around, he sleeps and dreams bad, probably what it is that his life despite its marketability as empty. Money and fame are yes, we know that not everything. His mood Finn revealed via off-monologue: "Behind the stuff is nothing. They are available only for itself They are surface. "That must be a photographer as well see the surfaces processed and whose specialty 360-degree photos are manipulated and on the big play.

That Wim Wenders to greater things must go as the small, neurotic failure of a scene-course - of which one can expect. And so lead Finns initial reflections on the making, the making of images quickly to the basic problem of this film operates here Wenders Pictures criticism - otherwise he probably would have little doubt asked photographers to the center - but does so with perfectly prepared, "made" pictures . And that is probably because Wim Wenders not only searches for truth, but also the very beauty loves. Who wants it verdenken? Just as Finn is also infatuated Wenders into the making of images.

But as a spectator, you can just never really dock at these beautiful smooth cinematic images of a possible end to the travel voucher and all - and to Sicily. Then flies in the fashion photographer Indeed, even after his favorite model Milla (Milla Jovovich) is no longer satisfied with the glossy photos, which he has done it. It lacks the life is somehow - and that, despite being highly Milla is pregnant! If this is not irony. So come to Palermo, where the end of all earthly life, death also called at home - and as I said: He looks like Dennis Hopper and sounds as well, so demand respect, strange, a little icy.

Campino the death was prior to this trip ever encountered - that was when he once during the night in Germany in his car too fast along the highway chased. At the time, the photographer happiness, but also violated a taboo, because he had a picture made of the death, but do not want to be recognized before the time - even if he only says Frank, as here. In Palermo Finn recalls his mother, falls in love with a beautiful renovator (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) and feels persecuted. The death seems as hooded man with bow and arrow to proceed against him. It was the Grim Reaper in Palermo, already the Mafia because, much to be done anyway.

It is about everything, but runs much into the void

"Palermo Shooting" wants to be a philosophical film, which not only life, love and death negotiate, but also art and time (-spirit), cinema, light and shadow - and the problem of authenticity itself. So it is everything, but somehow is still boring - and a lot of runs into space, even Ridikül, such as when Finn directly to the audience turns: "Do you so that you never really feel present?" -- No, Mr. Finn, which is not always as me! At the Cannes Festival in May saw the film's premiere, it was not exactly a glittering success. Subsequently, "Palermo Shooting" cut and shortened by 20 minutes.

Wenders and Campino are friends. The director had next to the model Milla Jovovich, other celebrities, friends tend to participate in his film asked. That has somewhat vain, does not always mandatory. Lou Reed for example, has a scene as a kind of living death. Patti Smith will be in the long version somewhere herumgeistern. In Palermo meets Finn once the Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia. It is because of their photos of famous Mafia victims. Dennis Hopper also photographed. Probably he knows that ultimately, only an excerpt in sight and never has the whole picture.