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Department of Art
Friday, November 1
7:00pm
Pefect Days

About the Event

Perfect Days
Directed by Wim Wenders
(Japan/Germany, 2023, 124 min.)

Friday, November 1, 7:00pm
Saturday, November 2, 7:00pm

A rare film about happiness: Hirayama (Koji Yakusho, Shall We Dance?, Cure) spends his days cleaning public restrooms that are part of The Tokyo Toilet design project, and listening to his carefully curated collection of cassette tapes. “Your cousin could have written this movie. But maybe only Wenders could have directed it. He has the sensitivity to shoot the seesawing depths of Yakusho’s face. He has the eye to capture the elegant and diverse architecture of Tokyo’s public bathrooms, from futuristic orbs, to cozy huts, to vertically slatted roundhouses, to honeycombed wood panels… . And because this is a Wim Wenders picture, Hirayama plays cassettes of Lou Reed and Patti Smith and Otis Redding and the Kinks as he drives past glimmering Tokyo, past the Skytree tower in whose shadow he lives. There’s a whole other world out there, and we sense that it sometimes whispers to Hirayama. But he’s happy where he is” — Bilge Eberi, New York Magazine.

 

Discounted parking available in Founder’s Court lot, $6 flat fee, credit card required.

Free and open to the public.

Directions & Parking

Location

Sewall Hall, room 301