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Wim Wenders: new movie shot rock 'n' roll style

by : DPA

Date : Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:18:25 GMT





Berlin - German movie director Wim Wenders, 63, said Thursday he shot his newest movie, The Palermo Shooting, "rock 'n ' roll style, " improvising the scenes as he went along. The introspective movie, about a German photographer who loses his mental bearings and wanders around the Italian city Palermo, premiered to dismissive reviews at the Cannes Film Festival this year and is set to arrive in German theatres next month.

Speaking at Popkomm, an annual trade fair for the music industry in Berlin, Wenders, who made the 1984 movie Paris, Texas, said the new movie had been strongly influenced by popular music.

"I wanted to make a film about death, but you can 't really do that. It isn 't done. But there is a lot of music about death.

"So I decided to make my film about death rock 'n ' roll style. That meant taking a risk. We just shot scenes spontaneously. We just sta



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