Tag: Art house film

• The Soundtrack of Perfect Days: A Quiet Echo of the Soul

  If Perfect Days is a film about the beauty of routine and the poetry of the everyday, then its soundtrack is its emotional compass. It is subtle, nostalgic, and deeply human. Wim Wenders doesn’t use music simply to decorate scenes. Instead, he uses it to illuminate the inner life of Hirayama, a man of few…

  Keelan Foley

  May 27, 2025

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• Exploring Ordinary Life in Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days

  Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days is a meditative masterpiece that celebrates the quiet dignity of ordinary life. Set in Tokyo and anchored by a mesmerizing performance from Kōji Yakusho, the film follows Hirayama, a middle-aged man who works as a public toilet cleaner. What could easily have been a bleak portrait of routine becomes, instead, a…

  Keelan Foley

  May 26, 2025

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