Perfect Days (Japan/Germany: Wim Wenders, 2023: 124 mins)
Babiolakis, Andreas. "Perfect Days." FilmsFatale (January 16, 2024)
Ebiri, Bilge. "Perfect Days: Where the Light Comes Through." Current (July 16, 2024) ["The city and the trees. These are the first two things we see in Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days (2023): a wide shot of Tokyo at dawn, and an angle looking up at a leafy canopy against a dark blue sky. The former feels like an establishing shot, the latter like a mental image—fitting, since we next see the protagonist, Hirayama (Koji Yakusho), opening his eyes in his modest home, awakened by the sounds of a solitary street sweeper outside. Perfect Days lives, in essence, between these two tableaux. It’s a city symphony about a man who appreciates the patches of nature and light he can find in his concrete world, and it’s a film about how everyday existence drifts into our dream lives."]
Kelly, Nolan. "Wim Wender's Perfect Days." Brooklyn Rail (January 2024)
Little White Lies. "Wim Wenders and the Road Less Traveled." (Posted on Youtube: April 15, 2024)
Wenders, Wim. "Perfect Days: — Wim Wenders cures his post-pandemic blues." MUBI Podcast (April 11, 2024) ["Legendary filmmaker Wim Wenders returns to the show to tell host Rico Gagliano about his Cannes-winning, Oscar-nominated PERFECT DAYS—the story of a Tokyo toilet cleaner who finds joy in routine. They also get into a few of Wenders’s favorite things: Japan, travel, Nina Simone, and having time on his hands."]
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