Perfect Days

Translated from swedish: "Perfect Days" is infused with beauty and sensuality and serves as a perfect antidote to the demands and pressures of everyday life. It reminds us of how much beauty surrounds us and that we can choose to see and embrace it, if we just take a little time: a reminder to practice mindfulness, if you will.
- Maria Drangel

Swedish: filmeye.se »

Translated from swedish: Perfect Days is beautiful, a masterpiece that opens your eyes to the beauty in life's small daily tasks. About seeing and feeling a tree's presence. About being able to observe a tree and not expecting anything more than just what's there. About the beauty of life. About how life doesn't need to be about becoming world-famous, that happiness exists in our own minds and how we see, hear, feel, taste and smell what is right where we are. About doing what we do with focus. This gem, this masterpiece, has everything a film should have to say something of the most important thing a film can say: Now is now.
- Rosemari Södergren

Swedish: kulturbloggen.com »

Translated from swedish: It's the magnificence in the small things that "Perfect Days" focuses on. Hirayama observes the world around him with warmth and joy. Those expecting action will be disappointed. Our quiet protagonist's routine life takes the lead. Things do heat up when a niece shows up and certain answers are given to past family relationships. But otherwise, it's a story about love. Lost or longed for.
- Andreas Heilborn

Swedish: ng.se »

Translated from swedish: Japan's Oscar submission for this year is signed by none other than Wim Wenders. "Perfect Days" has been described as a love letter to Tokyo, but is also a beautiful tribute to life's simple pleasures.
- Anna Hedlin

Swedish: moviezine.se »

Translated from swedish: A dutiful toilet cleaner who loves trees and American seventies music. That's the unlikely hero in Japan's Oscar submission, signed by Wim Wenders. The German veteran director returns to his favorite city Tokyo with very successful results.
- Eva af Geijerstam

Swedish: dn.se »

Translated from swedish: Wim Wenders makes a comeback with "Perfect Days" set in Tokyo.
- Mats Johnson

Swedish: gp.se »

Translated from swedish: Wim Wenders' "Perfect Days" is urban poetry in Japan
- Björn Jansson

Swedish: sverigesradio.se »

Translated from swedish: "Perfect Days" – about Hirayama who cleans Tokyo's public toilets – is among the most beautiful and deeply moving things in cinemas these days.
- Annika Gustafsson

Swedish: sydsvenskan.se »

Translated from swedish: No observation is too mundane to be of interest – neither the homeless man in the park and his strange gesticulating, nor the play of light through the foliage of trees. During the first half of his new film, Wim Wenders follows this quiet existence with remarkable dedication. Equal parts meditative cleaning ritual and commercial for Tokyo's pristine public restrooms, "Perfect Days" is almost incidentally filled with flâneur-like observations.
- Johannes Hagman

Swedish: unt.se »

Translated from swedish: A bittersweet dream, and among the better feel-good movies I've seen.
- Zara Luna Hjelm

Swedish: kultmagasin.se »

Translated from swedish: Small moments of joy in a routine everyday life
- Jeanette Gentele

Swedish: svd.se »

Translated from swedish: The film borders on tedious, but then something occasionally happens. An unexpected encounter. Someone who disturbs Hirayama.
- Jan-Olov Andersson

Swedish: aftonbladet.se »

Translated from swedish: There are moments that bring the film to life. I also admit that the final image with the music being played is a beautiful way to conclude the film and its entire message. But it's far too long and too mundane for me to find enjoyment in it as a feature film.
- Linus Andersen

Swedish: cinetaste.se »