Paris, Texas
For some people this may sound a bit weird, but if I ever had to choose the one movie I would be allowed to keep, that would be “Paris, Texas”. I am sure most of you are familiar with its soundtrack, even if you have not seen the film, as it was, and I think it still is, the score for the TV documentary show “Documentos TV”.
I first heard about “Paris, Texas” because of the very especial music by Ry Cooder that perfectly matched the story of Travis, a man lost in his own private hell. Presumed dead for four years, he reappears from the desert on the Mexico border, world-weary and an amnesiac.
He traces his brother Walt who is bringing up Hunter, his seven-year-old son, his ex-wife Jane having abandoned him at Walt’s door several years before.
This film boasts superb performances by Harry Dean Stanton as Travis and Natassja Kinski as Jane. I would like you now to listen to a memorable scene where Travis is talking to Jane, who cannot see him because they are separated by a glass panel, as she works in a kind of peep-show. At first, she doesn’t know it’s him, but as Travis finally comes to terms with everything that made their relationship fall to pieces, she finds out he is back to make sure Jane and Hunter, their son, are reunited.
