Word: dommartin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bring back the old stars and add a big new one. Bruno Ganz and Otto Sander are back as Damiel and Cassiel, the angels come to Earth. Peter Falk returns as an ex-angel, and Solveig Dommartin as the trapeze artist who'll meet any heavenly body halfway. But here's a casting coup: Mikhail Gorbachev as himself. He sits at a desk, pondering the meaning of life and the purpose of the universe. "I'm sure that a secure world can't be built on blood, only on harmony," opines the former Soviet leader, now available for smaller roles...
...film's disenchanted young heroine, Claire (Solveig Dommartin), couldn't care less. Adrift on the highways between Venice and Paris with the loot from a bank robbery in the front seat of her car, Claire gives a ride to fellow traveller Sam Farber (William Hurt). She falls in love with him during their day-long trip to the French capitol. Only after she has dropped Farber off at his hotel does she realize that he has stolen her money...
...viewer interested in performances as well as cinematography, Until the End of the World is worth seeing twice--attention is often divided between the flawless and inventive performances of Dommartin, Hurt, and Neill and the whimsical subtlety of the sets. The screen-play, though written by Peter Carey and Wim Wenders, is based on an original idea by Wenders and Solveig Dommartin...
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