Film Overview

A hallucinatory and rarely-seen documentary concentrating on singer and Academy Award-nominated actress Ronee Blakely’s 7-year marriage to legendary German filmmaker Wim Wenders. Rueful and intensely personal, ‘I Played It for You’ is shot in a variety of film gauges, and blurs the line between what is reality and what is contrived on a near-constant basis, alternating between home movies shot by Wenders, improvised dream and fantasy sequences, and videos of Blakley working with her two bands. Wenders appears as a tall enigmatic stranger named Howard in a curious fragment of the film that he co-directed. Mostly, though, he is himself, much as Ms. Blakley is herself, in this heady, enigmatic look at a woman, a relationship and a time.

Sheila Benson of the LA Times called it "passionate and brave, an absorbing first film" and FX Feeney
of the LA Weekly said "It's a valuable document and Blakley's quintessential gifts have not been dimmed in the decade since "Nashville"... that remarkabley fluid, profound voice of hers, which never seems to come from her so much as through her."