Wim Wenders has spent much of the past three decades building portraits of other artists — the Cuban musicians of Buena Vista Social Club (1999), the choreographer Pina Bausch in Pina (2011), the photographer Sebastião Salgado in The Salt of the Earth (2014), the German painter-sculptor Anselm Kiefer in Anslem (2023). The first three were Oscar-nominated. All were critically acclaimed. But none has taken him as long as From Inside Out: The Architecture of Peter Zumthor, the German auteur’s 3D documentary on the Pritzker Prize-winning Swiss architect, has been 14 years in the making. It started small. David Chipperfield, curating the 2012…
