praise of the banality of everyday life

The week’s cinema releases with Thierry Fiorile and Matteu Maestracci: “Perfect Days” by Wim Wenders and “Le temps d’aimer” by Katell Quillévéré.

Thirty-eight years later Tokyo-Ga, documentary about filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu, director Wim Wenders returns to Japan to film the daily life of a lonely elderly man who cleans public toilets.

Magic of cinema, this banal existence offers a story of great delicacy. First of all, these toilets are beautiful, they were designed by great architects, commissioned by the city of Tokyo, where these places have a respected social function, which is unknown to us.

This man repeats ritualized gestures, such as his reading times, the photo he takes every day, the audio K7s he listens to in his car, when his niece, a runaway teenager, arrives at his house, summoning up with her a buried past . Praise of deprivation, of simplicity, Perfect Days is a film that invites meditation.

Time to love by Katell Quillévéré

Katell Quillévéré, to whom we owe Suzanne And Repair the living is also co-director of the highly acclaimed series The world of tomorrow, on the origins of hip-hop in France.

This time, she invites us to take an interest in the life of a couple, from the post-Second World War to the end of the 1960s. At the beginning of the film, we meet Madeleine, Anaïs Demoustier, shorn during the Liberation for having slept with a German soldier. A young boy, Daniel, is born from this forbidden union, and later, while working in a tourist hotel in Brittany, Madeleine meets François, Vincent Lacoste, a shy son of a good family disabled by polio.

A meeting almost by accident, between two people damaged by life, and who are each fleeing a secret, but who will take the time to love each other, to build themselves, even to rebuild themselves.