THE AMERICAN FRIEND
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Los Feliz 3 | ‘Wim Wenders: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’
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- RELEASED IN: 1977
- 126 MINUTES
- DIRECTED BY: Wim Wenders
ABOUT THE FILM:
In French and German with English subtitles.
Wim Wenders pays loving homage to rough-and-tumble Hollywood film noir with THE AMERICAN FRIEND, a loose adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel Ripley’s Game. Dennis Hopper oozes quirky menace as an amoral American art dealer who entangles a terminally ill German everyman, played by Bruno Ganz, in a seedy criminal underworld as revenge for a personal slight—but when the two become embroiled in an ever-deepening murder plot, they form an unlikely bond. Filmed on location in Hamburg and Paris, with some scenes shot in grimy, late-seventies New York City, Wenders’s international breakout is a stripped-down crime story that mixes West German and American film flavors, and it features cameos by filmmakers Jean Eustache, Samuel Fuller, and Nicholas Ray.
FORMAT: DCP
DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films
COUNTRY: Germany, France
