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The Goalie's Anxiety At The Penalty Kick

1971, Movie, NR, 101 mins

The Goalie's Anxiety At The Penalty Kick: Review

Haunting. Wim Wenders's second feature film and his first collaboration with the Austrian novelist-poet-playwright Peter Handke is an adaptation of Handke's short novel about a soccer goalie driven to murder. From the start of Wenders's film, the personality of the goalie, Josef Bloch (Arthur Brauss), is evident. While the game's action take place at one end of the field, Bloch waits at his net at the opposite end. As play nears, he takes little notice, walks in front of his... read more leave a comment