Land of Plenty

Michelle Williams    d/ Wim Wenders

This was Wenders at his most polemical. His two principle characters here were types, not people. As a result they didn't come to life on screen and I watched them dispassionately, not particularly caring about their fates. MW did her best but her character was underwritten.

I was also turned off by the unquestioning credulity Wenders gives to the Official Conspiracy Theory on 9/11. He should know better. This guy has been an outstanding filmmaker...he seems to have lost his way...all tangled up in intellectualism...

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