Playlist #5
 

PostED ON 18.10.2023

Every day, discover one or more tracks from a film by Wim Wenders, for whom music is an integral part of the story.

I just sing by The Troggs in Wrong Move

Did Goethe prefer the Troggs or the Kinks? A fan of Brit-pop, the modernised Wilhelm Meister played by Rüdiger Vogler in Wrong Move has an LP of each band on display. But it seems that the fury of Reginald Ball's nasally voice, known as Reg Presley, to make it sound more rock’n’roll, is better suited to the young man about to leave everything behind to do his apprenticeship across Germany. Too much anger for the luminous (and more enduring) pop of Ray Davies. Wenders had already drawn heavily on the Kinks' discography for his graduation film, Summer in the City, and a few years later in The American Friend, Bruno Ganz hummed Nothin' In the World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl, an awesome song that also features in Wes Anderson's Rushmore, proof that great minds think alike. The 2023 Lumière film festival is also in a Kinks’ mode, with a personal version of You Really Got Me by Patrick Bouchitey in Lune Froide. It’s all in there, as they say.

A. F.

SCREENINGS

Wrong Move by Wim Wenders (Falsche Bewegung, 1975, 1h43)
Cinéma Opéra – Friday, 20 October at 7.15pm
UGC Astoria – Saturday, 21 October at 8.15pm