movie poster for ALICE IN THE CITIES

Flicks ID

4666

Cert

U

Running time

107 mins

Country

Language

Format

DVD

ALICE IN THE CITIES (1974)

WIM WENDERS

Plot

A photo-journalist, returning from a fruitless trip to the States, has a small child, Alice, dumped on him in a New York airport. The pair journey across Germany searching for her home town, whose name and address Alice can't remember, the only clue they have is a photograph of her grandmother's front door with no house number and no one in the shot. Full of low-key charm, an eminently watchable road movie that closely foreshadowed "Paris Texas".