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a link for a good detailed plot summary, and info


I saw it yesterday at a late evening screening in Los Angeles with Wenders in-attendance, and he did an intro and stayed for a Q&A afterward (which ended at 1:30am!)

I'd describe Palermo Shooting as an interesting failure, though with some good stuff in it. And not as a worst-ever film, or even as awful like some folks.
Also interesting to me was how the naturalistic Wenders of "Paris, Texas" days has embraced modern CGI effects.

Dennis Hopper, in his last role, was very good in a small but important supporting part in the very last scene of the film (don't walk out early, cause you'd miss Hopper).

Looking for more info on it today, the English Wikipedia entry had only a brief paragraph.

HOWEVER, I accidentally stumbled onto the German Wikipedia page- totally different from the English. It has a long and detailed plot summary. Plus other information including a music list (important to the film).
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palermo_Shooting

Of course, Google Chrome's German-to-English translator produced a sometimes silly broken-English translation in places, but I thought it was still quite worthwhile to read. And clarified a lot of points I'd missed or was unclear about last night.

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