This bittersweet Western blues, directed by Wim Wenders from a script by Sam Shepard, is a minor-key delight.

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The actress, 51, whose films include Roman Polanski's Tess and Paris Texas by Wim Wenders, said she had read Pola's words and wept.

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Yet Wenders does not want his homage to end in tears.

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For years, Wenders was planning a collaboration with the German choreographer Pina Bausch, who had run the Tanztheater Wuppertal, in northwest Germany, since the early nineteen-seventies.

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Those hints are in Wenders, too.

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