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May 28, 2008
In defense of Wim Wenders' "Palermo Shooting"
Generally received as the "worst film of Cannes 2008", I have to confess that Wim Wenders' "Palermo Shooting" has me totally intrigued. Here's why:1. The film is infested with high-level style icons.
2. One is a heavily-pregnant Milla Jovovitch...what's not to love?
3. Another is Dennis Hopper. He plays Death.
4. Lou Reed plays a Ghost.
5. Support actress Jana Pallaske is in a hot Berlin rock band called "Spitting Off Tall Buildings", who once wrote a song called "Yuppie Scum".
6. Wenders (pictured, right) bravely dedicates the film "to Ingmar and Michelangelo, 30.7.2007," which, according to Variety's reviewer "elicited derisive hoots at Cannes screening". Several audience members walked out, others booed at the end. All this merely serves to add to the film's legend.
With all this in mind—looks like "Palermo Shooting" is shaping up to be The Best Unintentionally Funny, So Bad It's Good Underground Film of 2008. Like others of its ilk (R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet", for instance), it's the sincerity of intention coupled with ill-conceived execution that creates the perfect conditions for such classics. And as stoner college kids and B-movie aficionados will attest, there's nothing groovier than the underdog.
Now let's pray it gets distribution.
May 28, 2008 in FAME | Permalink
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