German director Wim Wenders was seventy-seven when he made Perfect Days, with thirty-four feature films under his belt. Perhaps it takes a filmmaker with so much work and life experience to make something as gently meditative as his latest offering.
Perfect Days centres on Hirayama (Koji Yakusho), a man not much younger than Wenders himself. He leads a simple life, and Wenders allows us to indulg ... (read more)