Filmed without a script and at an extremely slow pace, but nevertheless a wonderful film reveals itself in all that emptiness. Virtuoso film by Wim Wenders and the third part of his road movie trilogy.

In this road movie about two men and the downfall of a cinema culture, Wenders shows his great love for John Ford. In addition to an ode to film equipment, director Wenders' screenplay is also a portrait of the uprooting of German society in the American-inspired consumer society. With a classic final scene, in which the only neon letters in the closed Weisse Wand cinema that are not broken form the word 'end'.

The screenplay is also the supplier of the famous quote: 'The Americans have colonized our subconscious'. In the seventies and eighties, it was often cited by members of the 'countermovement' who denounced the hegemony of American culture.

Robby Müller, looking back. 'Im Lauf der Zeit was one of the first major films with Wim for me. I gradually got the feeling that I had the camera under control. Here I could do things where I thought: yes, that's how it's meant to be. I've got it in my fingers.'

Im Lauf der Zeit belongs to Wenders' so-called road movie trilogy, together with Alice in den Städten and Falsche Bewegung; in this trilogy, the main characters are searching for the meaning of their existence, which invariably remains hidden behind the horizon of their (unarticulated) desires.

Source: EYE

Please note: German, English spoken, English subtitles