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Paris, Texas (1984)

Directed by Wim Wenders · Cinematography by Robby Müller

R145 min64 frames

Drama

A place for dreams. A place for heartbreak. A place to pick up the pieces.

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Paris, Texas (1984) movie still: medium — Two men sit at a yellow circular table outside a remote night-time gas station. A blue vintage sedan is…Paris, Texas (1984) movie still: medium — A dressing room features a large mirror reflecting a man seated at a desk. The man holds a white telephone…Paris, Texas (1984) movie still: medium — A man stands in an arched doorway between a blue-lit area and a red-lit space. Faint multi-colored…Paris, Texas (1984) movie still: establishing — A vast view of a suburban city and an airfield beneath heavy storm clouds. Numerous small houses and…Paris, Texas (1984) movie still: medium — A diner booth with orange vinyl seats and a view of a parked car outside. Two men sit at the table in…Paris, Texas (1984) movie still: wide — A vintage pickup truck sits parked on the shoulder beneath a towering concrete highway interchange. Two…Paris, Texas (1984) movie still: medium — A man stands by a car at a gas station under artificial green lighting. He looks at a map spread out on…Paris, Texas (1984) movie still: wide — A vast arid desert landscape features distant sandstone rock formations under a cloudy sky. A man in a dark…Paris, Texas (1984) movie still: medium — A dark, cramped space features a reflective glass panel labeled Poolside above a desk. A man with a…Paris, Texas (1984) movie still: establishing — A night view of a highway leading towards a dense urban skyline. Distant skyscrapers are visible…Paris, Texas (1984) movie still: wide — A concrete patio sits at the edge of a dry grassy hill under blue sky. A man in a striped shirt sits on a…Paris, Texas (1984) movie still: medium — An interior space bathed in intense green light with a medical examination lamp visible. An older man with…Paris, Texas (1984) movie still: medium — A suburban home features a muted color palette with retro 1980s wooden cabinetry. A woman sits alone at a…Paris, Texas (1984) movie still: wide — A residential street hill with asphalt, a street sign, and pine trees. An adult male and a young child walk…Paris, Texas (1984) movie still: wide — An open, sparse desert landscape under a clear blue sky at sunset. Two men stand beside a rusted yellow…Paris, Texas (1984) movie still: medium — A grassy open plain sits before a large, solitary rocky mountain under a blue sky. A man stands in the…
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What is Paris, Texas about?

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

Paris, Texas is a 1984 drama road film directed by Wim Wenders, co-written by Sam Shepard and L. M. Kit Carson, and produced by Don Guest. A co-production of West Germany, France, and the United Kingdom, it stars Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clément, and Hunter Carson. In the film, Travis Henderson (Stanton) reunites with his brother Walt (Stockwell) and son Hunter (Carson) after an unexplained four-year absence.

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What does the cinematography of Paris, Texas look like?

Across 64 sampled frames, Paris, Texas builds its coverage from medium shots (56% of the sample), with wide compositions (27%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Robby Müller keeps 48% of it in soft, naturalistic light. 50% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame.

What is the color palette of Paris, Texas?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Paris, Texas (1984) are #33302f, #0c080b, #4c4b4c, #2a3446, #2e0f0f, #a79588 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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