If you believe a hot firecracker like Kate Winslet (sample dialogue delivered in her cockney lilt; ‘I want your finger up my ____hole right now’) can be sexually attracted to a balding, heavyset fifty-something like Tony Soprano, maybe you’ll get something out of this film.

All languid, iconic shots and a slowly unravelling mystery that never quite unravels, you may sit down to watch Paris, Texas aware that you’re watching one of the most revered movies of modern times and be profoundly disappointed.

We get a very Hollywood version of the man here — portraying him as a simple man who loves his chosen wife and wants peace in his land. The life he’s famous for — conquering the known world of the Eurasian continent by slaughtering half of it is a brief send-off in the supertext at the end.