A very Wim evening — German auteur regales Mumbai

Wim Wenders, who won the European Film Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award last year, is on his first trip to India

Early Thursday evening, a line of people began to form outside Regal cinema, one of Mumbai’s last surviving single screen theatres. A few hours later, as they filed in, conversations flew fast and loose. Some compared German auteur Wim Wenders’s films from the 1970s to his most recent, Perfect Days (2023), some others carefully broke down the merits of German New Wave cinema of which Wenders is considered an exemplar alongside Werner Hertzog and Raner Werner Fassbinder.

German filmmaker and author Wim Wenders at Regal Theatre in Mumbai on Thursday. (Anshuman Poyrekar/HT Photo)

Wenders, who won