‘I made most of my fiction films as if they had been documentaries, then I made my documentaries as if they had been fictions’ … Wim Wenders. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/The

Interview

Wim Wenders: ‘When Paris, Texas won Cannes it was terrible’

 

The revered director talks about his friend Rainer Fassbinder, dealing with success and failure, and how he is like the angels in Wings of Desire – as a retrospective of his work comes to cinemas

Ryan Gilbey

Friday 1 July 2022

Is it bad manners to wear a Fassbinder T-shirt to an interview with Wim Wenders? Apparently not. “Ah, Rainer!” says Wenders, full of jubilation as he claps eyes on my wardrobe choice. Then he grits his teeth and snarls: “I’m still so fucking mad at him for dying.”