and speechifying, and the most thoroughly literary of all Wenders’s films." TV Guide states that Wrong Move is "engaging" because of Wenders' direction, in spite of its emotional distance and unsympathetic characters. However, Time Out states that Wrong Move was unusual for Wenders' filmography, finding fault in Handke's screenplay. Evaluating how it fitted into the "Road Movie trilogy", The A.V. Club asserts "it’s unlikely that anyone saw Wenders’ next film, Wrong Move, as any sort of sequel to Alice, spiritual or otherwise." However, the A.V. Club goes on to suggest that in being "far uglier and more depressive than the trilogy’s bookends", it "perhaps serves as a necessary corrective to the other two films, suggesting as it does that there's no escaping one’s own inner nature." Accolades Wrong Move competed for the Gold Hugo at the 1975 Chicago International Film Festival. It also won several honours at the German Film Awards, marking the first of two times Peter Kern won an acting award at the ceremony. References External links Wrong Move: Utter Detachment, Utter Truth an essay by James Robison at the Criterion Collection 1975 films 1970s drama road movies German drama road movies West German films Films based on works by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Films directed by Wim Wenders Films with screenplays by Peter Handke Films scored by Jürgen Knieper Films about suicide Works based on Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship 1970s German-language films 1970s German films