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The State Of Things

Jun 8, 2009, 3:51pm

Movies about movie-making tend to be either hilariously vitriolic ( The Player ) or poignant ( Lost In La Mancha ): unfortunately, The State Of Things is neither. Wim Wenders' re-released 1982 film follows the fortunes of maverick German film director Friedrich Munro (Patrick Bauchau), as he travels from Portugal to LA in search of his missing producer, after Munro's post-apocalyptic B-Movie remake runs out of film. The fact that the first nine and a half minutes is made up of Munro's sepia-toned sci-fi nonsense, before the film proper begins, will try the patience of [...]

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