Palermo Shooting

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For Cannes Film Festival 2008

Palermo Shooting (2008) is a film written and directed by German director Wim Wenders, and starring Campino, Dennis Hopper, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Lou Reed as himself, and an uncredited Milla Jovovich, also playing herself.^[1]

The film is the first one directed by Wenders in his hometown, Düsseldorf.^[2]

Plot

The film follows a German photographer (played by Campino, singer of German punk band Die Toten Hosen) who comes to Palermo because he needs to make a clean break from his past. In the city, he meets a young woman (Mezzogiorno) and a completely different way of life.^[3]

Reception

The film was released in Germany on 20 November 2008. The film had its U.S. premiere on 20 January 2009 at the Berlin and Beyond film festival at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco.

As of November 2013, the film has the rating of 5,9/10 from 1.732 users.^[1]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 "Palermo Shooting". IMDb. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
↑ "Press release". Cannes Festival. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
↑ The Palermo Shooting at Hollywood.com

External links

Review of film in Variety, by Todd McCarthy, 25 May 2008
Video interview with Wim Wenders about Palermo Shooting (German), by GABA Media and Entertainment Co-Chair Pamela Lenz Sommer, 20 January 2009

Films directed by Wim Wenders

Summer in the City (1970)
The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty (1972)
The Scarlet Letter (1973)
Road Movie trilogy
- Alice in the Cities (1974)
- The Wrong Move (1975)
- Kings of the Road (1976)
The American Friend (1977)
Lightning Over Water (1980)
Room 666 (1982)
Hammett (1982)
The State of Things (1982)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Tokyo-Ga (1985)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Notebook on Cities and Clothes (1989)
Until the End of the World (1991)
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
Lisbon Story (1994)
Beyond the Clouds (1995)
A Trick of Light (1995)
The End of Violence (1997)
Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
"Twelve Miles to Trona" in Ten Minutes Older (2002)
The Soul of a Man (2003)
Land of Plenty (2004)
Don't Come Knocking (2005)
Palermo Shooting (2008)
"Person to Person" in 8 (2008)
Pina (2011)
Every Thing Will Be Fine (2014)

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