April Letter 2024

It's Spring! Perfect Days ensue. But do shadows get darker when they overlap? And other thoughts inspired by Wim Wenders elegiac latest film.

‘Perfect Days’ by Wim Wenders is a long film at 2 hours and six minutes, but the packed cinema (at a 1pm showing) was entirely silent throughout.

This is film as meditation. A paean to a simple life. To the pleasing rituals of routine. To the quiet beauty of shadows. And to the pride you can feel in doing a job well (even if it’s cleaning toilets). Ther…