Alice in the Cities
A German journalist is saddled with a nine-year-old girl after encountering her mother at a New York airport.
1 March 1909, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
15 March 1940, Romania
2 December 1945, Hof, Bavaria, Germany
6 December 1942, Griffen, Carinthia, Austria
28 February 1942, Wien, Austria
18 October 1926, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
31 October 1915, Vincennes, Indiana, USA
January 04, 2008
Touching but never sentimental.
January 04, 2008
The fragmentary approach could never be called exhilarating, but it has a sly humour, and the mood is sustained by Vogler and Rottlander as the unlikely companions.
June 16, 2016
a simple story beautifully and poignantly told
January 04, 2008
It is a shame the excruciatingly wooden adult actors were not as natural as Yella Rottländer who played nine-year-old Alice.
November 28, 2008
Only just barely.
February 09, 2006
There are points when the director allows his voice to ring a little loudly from behind the camera, but the richness and depth of both the photography and the characterisation manage to brush any signs of preachiness and sentimentality from view.
September 05, 2008
It takes a long time for Wenders to get where he wants to go but it's worth the wait... .
November 25, 2011
Wenders' salient, head-clearing travelogue
January 04, 2008
Hauntingly photographed by Robbie Müller, it's one of this hugely uneven filmmaker's crispest, finest moments.
January 04, 2008
Captivating performances from both Vogler and Rottlander whose on-screen chemistry provides the beating heart of Alice In The Cities.
August 24, 2015
With this film, Wenders crystallized his style of existential sentimentality.
January 04, 2008
A fine and perhaps unique example of that trickiest of genres, the road movie, and the sort of film that really does deserve the cliched response: they don't make them like that any more, because they really don't.

