Join the Rotary Club as they host the movie Perfect Days, the third film in their International Film Series. Showings are at 4:00pm or 7:00pm at Landmark Cinemas in Kanata.
Should you wish to attend the 4:00pm film showings, please email Charles Mossman at charca@yahoo.com or if you opt for the 7:00pm timeframe passes, please email Sandra Burt at sburt@uwaterloo.ca.
And a little about the film – This Japanese film, the creation of German director Wim Wenders, has been Oscar-nominated for best International Feature Film. The film has an unlikely hero – 60-year-old Hirayama, a solitary man whose job it is to clean public toilets in Tokyo, and who lives alone in a small apartment filled with plants. Each day repeats the previous one, and Hirayama finds peace and harmony in this repetition and pleasure in nature and the satisfaction of doing his job well. Hirayama is a lover of 60s and 70s British and American rock music of Lou Reed and Nina Simone and has an enviable cassette collection. The film’s title is taken from a Lou Reed disc. The film is a celebration of simple pleasures. But we have clues about the previous life of Hirayama, and the loneliness that sometimes overwhelms him. Is he fleeing from his past? This is a film with multiple layers of meaning, and the Guardian states that it is “a joyous film about sadness and solitude, rejection and despair,” Wim Wenders’ “best feature film in years”.