Movie Church: Wings of Desire
Here at CULTPLEX we've long regarded movie-going as a religious experience and the cinema as a sacred temple of worship. Week in, week out people don their best to celebrate the gods of cinema on the big screen as they intended us to. We could never quite put a name on this but recently one of our religion's patron saints Greta Gerwig talked of the Movie Church she assembled before her most recent sermon Barbie, to prepare her disciples for telling her next great story.
We are excited to bring our own MOVIE CHURCH as a regular monthly slot at the cinema (on Sundays, of course). Here you will find a celebration of the very best sermons to be committed to film, that typify the power of movies and deserve to be worshipped at the altar of big screen cinema. Expect introductory words from our clergy, a church raffle for film prizes and a truly holy cinematic experience.
In director Wim Wenders’ most metaphysical work, a guardian angel desires nothing more than to be human.Winner of the Best Director prize at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, Wings of Desire is both a paean to Germany's capital and a vital rumination on human existence itself.
Two angels, Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander), glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion (Solveig Dommartin), the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds--with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk (playing himself) -- that it might be possible for him to take human form.
All of our screenings are 18+ unless otherwise stated, and the film start time is as advertised above.
Content Warnings: images of real dead bodies, suicide, domestic abuse, strong language.
- Runtime: 128 minutes
- Director: Wim Wenders
- Country: Germany
- Year: 1987
