Lisbon Story is a movie of rare beauty. It's well crafted, just like an art masterpiece. It's both funny and poetic, as through the entire movie there are several profound considerations about life and about how reality showed through our eyes is just an interpretation among many, reason why Frederich decides to shoot the scenes of his new film attaching the camera on his back. The setting is outstanding as Lisbon is showed in its purest charm thanks to the scenes in the narrow and fascinating streets of the Portoguese capital. The presence of the Fado group of Madredeus gives an even more dreaming touch and it also conveys the melancholic soul of the city and of its inhabitants. An adventurous streak is also present in the movie from the beginning, when Winter's trip to Lisbon resembles that of Ulysses in the Odyssey, to further on, when he wonders around the city catching the various colorful sounds the city offers. At the end of the movie there's also a homage to Fellini who died the year before the film was released: Wenders gives his greeting to one of the most poetic and dreaming directors ever and from whom he definitely took inspiration,at least in this movie.
Review of Lisbon Story
