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Article: The Soul of a Man: "The Blues according to Wim".
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- November 1, 2003
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The Soul of a Man Wim Wenders, Director 2003, 110 m.
Part of the series, The Blues Martin Scorsese, Exec. Prod.
Wenders's statement (I) that his film is "more like a poem than a documentary" is a fair description of the form and style of his recent film, The Soul of a Man, produced as part of the American PBS television series, The Blues (2). Indeed, as an anthropologist and filmmaker, what I found most refreshing about this film is how this renowned auteur of the cinema poetically blends fact and fiction, breathing new life into the all-too-often-flattened pitch of historical documentary. And, unlike many ethnographic and documentary filmmakers, Wenders ...