Originally over three hours long, Wim Wenders' trip around the world is still a hard slog at its present length, even with Sam Neill narrating to help you follow the plot. Did we say plot? Well, there's about enough to fill the back of an envelope. The first half of the film consists of a 'road' movie in which heroine Solveig Dommartin (not destined to become an international star) follows William Hurt from France on to China, America and Australia in pursuit of some money he's stolen, which she in turn was holding for the bank robbers who caused her to crash her car into theirs in the middle of nowhere. The second half is set in South Australia, where Hurt's father (Max Von Sydow) is conducting experiments in an underground laboratory that will help his blind wife (Jeanne Moreau) see. When that's accomplished, they use computers to project the images from dreams on to a screen. All this seems to go for more than four hours let alone nearly three; Hurt and Von Sydow offer unattractive, occasionally overwrought performances.


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