Perfect Days + Wings of Desire

The wonders of everyday life come into breath­taking focus in these profoundly moving pair of films by New German Cinema pioneer Wim Wenders.

PERFECT DAYS (2023) | PG

In a radiant, Cannes-award-winning performance of few words but extraordinary expressiveness, Koji Yakusho plays a public-toilet cleaner in Tokyo whose rich inner world is gradually revealed through his small exchanges with those around him and with the city itself. Channeling his idol Yasujiro Ozu, Wenders crafts a serenely minimalist ode to the miracle that is the here and now.

WINGS OF DESIRE (1987) | PG

Bruno Ganz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts—fears, hopes, dreams—of all the people living below. But when he falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, he is willing to give up his immortality and come back to earth to be with her. Made not long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, this stunning tapestry of sounds and images was shot in black and white and colour by the legendary Henri Alekan.