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Writer Screenwriter Gary Kencey Releases Review of PARIS, TEXAS ( 1984 )
Added: (Thu Oct 27 2005)
Writer Screenwriter Gary Kencey Releases Review of PARIS, TEXAS ( 1984 )
A story about losing things that are most precious to us in life -- losing and then somehow reclaiming them after going through the purgatory
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by Gary Kencey
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Los Angeles, CA – Screenwriter Gary Kencey has just finished and released a comprehensive review of the multi-award winner PARIS, TEXAS.
This review is available for immediate FREE publication and syndication purposes. Kencey also provides reviews of NEW RELEASES for qualified media outlets and websites.
The full text of the review is available from http://writer111.blogspot.com/
Here is an excerpt:
SUMMARY: A man who walks out on his family shows up 4 years later walking the Texas badlands in a daze. He slowly regains his hold on reality and memories and reclaims his past by taking his estranged 7 year old son back to his wife. But tracking down his missing wife in Houston also leads to the surprise of a lifetime.
PARIS, TEXAS (1984) is a German-French-American co-production directed by German director Win Wenders. The screenplay by the great character actor Sam Shepard (Black Hawk Down, Steel Magnolias, The Notebook) treats a sensitive subject with a lot of dignity without, however, any overt exposition.
This is a story about losing things that are most precious to us in life. It's about losing and then somehow reclaiming them after going through the purgatory.
The most interesting character in this gorgeous-looking movie is of course Travis, a mysterious man with amnesia walking the badlands of Texas all alone, played by Harry Dean Stanton. The casting is perfect. Stanton does not even look like he is acting.
Travis, found wondering like a ghost on the burning bone-dry plains of Texas with many months' worth of beard on his face and a tattered business suit on his back, is driven home to L.A. by his brother Walt (Dean Stockwell). Walt is a billboard manufacturer who lives with his wife Anne (Aurore Clement) and 7 year old son Hunter (Hunter Carson). Hunter actually turns out to be the son that Travis has abandoned when he mysteriously disappeared from the face of the earth 4 years ago.
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In addition to the heart-wrenching story of a relationship blown to pieces and then partially glued back together, this movie has two additional gifts for the viewer. The first is the stark beauty of Texas which is captured by the amazing cinematography of Robby Muller (who used the camera himself from start to finish). This film is such a pleasure to watch that one can frame every scene and hang it on the living room wall.
The second gift is the eerie twanging original soundtrack provided by the incomparable Ry Cooder. Without his music, “Paris, Texas” would be nowhere near where it stands today, 21 years after it won a dozen movie awards, especially in Europe.
This heart breaker of a beautiful flick deserves a 9 out of 10.
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Gary Kencey ( http://writer111.blogspot.com ) is a freelance text perpetrator who has finished his first feature script AFFORDING MIRACLES, a big-budget mystical-thriller story of murdered Catholic priests, Virgin Mary and human cloning. He is currently writing his second script, the twisting story of an immigrant who is trying to find the "American dream" in America. He can be reached at writer111@gmail.com
He writes regularly for http://ez-entertainment.net and http://www.delsmolds.com/Moviepage.html
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