1975 · drama · road-movie · literary
The Wrong Move
Directed by Wim Wenders1h 45m1975
Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, Mignon. She's an acrobat in market squares for spare change.
Our read: The Wrong Move (1975) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, inventive drama · road-movie · literary entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, slow-burn, measured drama / road-movie, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- slow-burn
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