Wim Wenders film that today looks pretentious and obscure

Wim Wenders's 1975 film, Wrong Move, seems to be a German-language follow-up, a decade behind its time?, to the Italian-French-Spanish new wave cinema - a story about a mysterious journey in which the protagonist and others he meets on his travels discuss in oblique conversation and in disconnected dialog issues of life, fate, politics, history, and art. What worked well, however, in earlier films - such as Breathless, 8 1/2, Discrete Charm, et al seems overwrought and pretentious here. The script by famously dire Austrian playwright Peter Handke will not sound to anyone like recognizable human conversation in any language; apparently it's a 20th-century update of a Goethe novel  (Willhelm Meister)- but it still has to stand on its own to be worth watching; maybe it's worth watching once, out of curiosity, but it's be no means great or groundbreaking. Plot such as it is in rough outline involves a young man, Willhelm (in his 20s at most? - one would think he should be a teenager and played by one - definitely not by an actor in his 30s!) - who wants to "be a writer" and sets off on a journey to find his talent; the trip will take him from the German lowlands to its highest peak; in the process, W meets on a train and in a restaurant, several people who will accompany him: an elderly street musician (whom we learn had a past history as a Nazi officer - W later tries to kill the man, but backs off); his female sidekick (debut of Nastasha Kinsky), a mute, and decidedly untalented though beautiful; a would be poet who's clumsy and awkward and whose verse is morbid and juvenile; a beautiful actress who keeps coming on to W and whom he keeps rebuffing. They also meet a wealthy, suicidal man who puts them all up for a night - and in the a.m. they all discuss their dreams. Yawn. There's no great climax or insight, there's minimal action, and overall the film is neither emotive nor instructive - although I will say that some of the photography is quite beautiful, especially a long scene with long tracking shots as the characters ascend a mountain via a paved walkway; also, the score is dissonant and in keeping with the discordant dialogue and the many missed connections that the characters endure on their journey to nowhere.