Wings of Desire

Wings of Desire (1988) starring Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois, Peter Falk. A pair of angels wander around the streets of Berlin and wonder what it would be like to be human. One of them (Ganz) finally decides to take the plunge and takes human form, falling in love with a beautiful human woman. The movie has many good parts, switches back and forth between black-and-white and color, and shows people at their best and worst. But it didn't really work for me. Perhaps it was all that translation from German to English that threw me off. It's mostly in German, with English subtitles. Grade: B-