Continuing our series in which writers choose their favourite Palme d’Or victor, Guy Lodge praises Wim Wenders’ sweetly desolate road movie: a desert flower of a film, that invented AmericanaAccording to actor Dirk Bogarde – the president of the Cannes competition jury in 1984 – festival bosses were less than delighted with the selection of new German cinema graduate Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas for that year’s Palme d’Or.