PARIS, TEXAS: Desert Visions Film Week at FOMO Cinema Tbilisi
Saturday 27. June at 21:00 - 23:25
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
June 23-28 FOMO presents Desert Visions, a journey through some of cinema's most unforgettable deserts. From Australian outback nightmares and American road movies to spaghetti westerns, Soviet science fiction, spiritual quests, and stories of people searching for meaning at the edge of civilisation. These are films about vast landscapes, strange encounters, reinvention, survival, and what happens when the familiar world falls away.
PARIS, TEXAS
Wim Wenders | 1984 | West Germany / France / United Kingdom / USA | English | 2h25m
If I had to choose a single masterpiece from this season, it would probably be PARIS, TEXAS. The film begins with one of the great opening images in cinema. A lone man emerges from the desert and walks silently across the landscape. We don't know where he's been. We don't know what happened to him. We don't even know if he wants to be found.
That man is Travis Henderson, played by Harry Dean Stanton in one of the greatest screen performances I've ever seen.
What follows is, on the surface, a story about a man reconnecting with his family. In practice it's something much richer and more difficult to describe. A film about regret. About memory. About the stories people tell themselves in order to keep living. About the distance that can grow between people who once loved each other.
Wim Wenders and cinematographer Robby Müller transform the American Southwest into something almost mythical. Neon signs glow against endless darkness. Empty roads stretch toward the horizon. Every landscape seems haunted by the people who passed through it before.
What I love most about PARIS, TEXAS is its generosity. It understands that people make mistakes. Sometimes enormous mistakes. Yet it never stops looking at its characters with compassion.
There are a handful of scenes in this film that I think rank among the greatest ever filmed. If you've seen it before, you probably already know the ones I mean. If you haven't, I envy you. For me, this is one of those rare films that somehow becomes deeper, sadder, funnier, and more beautiful every time I return to it. A genuine masterpiece.
FOOD AND DRINK POLICY: FOMO Cinema Lounge Bar opens 1 hour before the first screening of the day and closes at 02:00, serving a wide selection of beer, wine, cocktails, and non-alcoholic refreshments including coffee and tea, as well as fresh hot popcorn! Outside food is allowed in the bar but not in the cinema. No alcohol from outside allowed. All guests are invited to arrive early and stay late!
LOCATION: FOMO Secret Cinema, Bazari Orbeliani, Tbilisi. A five minute walk from Liberty Square metro.
HOW TO FIND FOMO: Enter Bazari Orbeliani via Atoneli St above Carrefour and take the stairs on your left to Level 1. Signage on the door. You can also check our Instagram story highlights for a video showing exactly how to find us: https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3OTMzMTA2Mjk0MDI5MjM1
FOMO Secret Cinema • Bazari Orbeliani, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia
