Perfect Days (2023)
Country: JAP/GER
Technical: col/1.33:1 124m
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano
Synopsis:
A Tokyo toilet attendant takes a mute, obsessive interest in his humiliating office, and looks up at each new dawn with unwavering gratitude. Devoted equally to his collection of 70s and 80s cassettes and to his photographic creations, he is clearly also a man with a past.
Review:
Wenders here revisits some aspects of Alice in the Cities and Paris, Texas (the taciturnity, the haunted past), interspersing his 'narrative' with black and white photographic animations that might represent the dreams of our protagonist. It is slow going, repetitive and more or less dialogue free, meaning that much will depend on your state of mind (and body) when you see it; but it is also very allusive, with certain characters left shrouded in mystery, meaning that you also must be sharp-eyed and awake.
Country: JAP/GER
Technical: col/1.33:1 124m
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano
Synopsis:
A Tokyo toilet attendant takes a mute, obsessive interest in his humiliating office, and looks up at each new dawn with unwavering gratitude. Devoted equally to his collection of 70s and 80s cassettes and to his photographic creations, he is clearly also a man with a past.
Review:
Wenders here revisits some aspects of Alice in the Cities and Paris, Texas (the taciturnity, the haunted past), interspersing his 'narrative' with black and white photographic animations that might represent the dreams of our protagonist. It is slow going, repetitive and more or less dialogue free, meaning that much will depend on your state of mind (and body) when you see it; but it is also very allusive, with certain characters left shrouded in mystery, meaning that you also must be sharp-eyed and awake.
Country: JAP/GER
Technical: col/1.33:1 124m
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano
Synopsis:
A Tokyo toilet attendant takes a mute, obsessive interest in his humiliating office, and looks up at each new dawn with unwavering gratitude. Devoted equally to his collection of 70s and 80s cassettes and to his photographic creations, he is clearly also a man with a past.
Review:
Wenders here revisits some aspects of Alice in the Cities and Paris, Texas (the taciturnity, the haunted past), interspersing his 'narrative' with black and white photographic animations that might represent the dreams of our protagonist. It is slow going, repetitive and more or less dialogue free, meaning that much will depend on your state of mind (and body) when you see it; but it is also very allusive, with certain characters left shrouded in mystery, meaning that you also must be sharp-eyed and awake.