Alice in the Cities

With this film, Wenders crystallized his style of existential sentimentality.

There are points when the director allows his voice to ring a little loudly from behind the camera, but the richness and depth of both the photography and the characterisation manage to brush any signs of preachiness and sentimentality from view.

a simple story beautifully and poignantly told

Wenders' salient, head-clearing travelogue

Only just barely.

It takes a long time for Wenders to get where he wants to go but it's worth the wait... .

Touching but never sentimental.

Hauntingly photographed by Robbie Müller, it's one of this hugely uneven filmmaker's crispest, finest moments.

The fragmentary approach could never be called exhilarating, but it has a sly humour, and the mood is sustained by Vogler and Rottlander as the unlikely companions.

A fine and perhaps unique example of that trickiest of genres, the road movie, and the sort of film that really does deserve the cliched response: they don't make them like that any more, because they really don't.

It is a shame the excruciatingly wooden adult actors were not as natural as Yella Rottländer who played nine-year-old Alice.

Captivating performances from both Vogler and Rottlander whose on-screen chemistry provides the beating heart of Alice In The Cities.