And the clock’s ticking.Įuronews Culture: You’re the recipient of the 15th Prix Lumière this year. After all, it’s not every day you get to meet THE major figure of New German Cinema, a titan in his field, who also happens to be the president of the European Film Academy. If this interview goes well, we could end up going home with a cheeky autograph. I clutch my Buena Vista Social Club vinyl booklet while Fred has a limited-edition picture package from 30 years ago. “You’re on.”Īfter some chats with Wender’s charming and very friendly wife Donata, who shares with us that Perfect Days was a joyful return to Japan for her husband, who was allowed to film at his own rhythm by producers, we head to the interview corner. More translation work for me on top of the transcribing, but what the hell. “Let’s do it in French this time – we’re at the Lumière Festival, after all!” We compare questions we’ve prepared, pick the ones that will work with the clock ticking, and c’est parti. But others journos are here to interview him, so we make do. I desperately want to ask him about the use of music in his films, considering the filmmaker has collaborated with the likes of Nick Cave, Ry Cooder, Eels, and many more. Our quick time slot is something of a problem considering all we want to discuss with Wenders. And I love me some Nina.įred and I sat next to each other during the Cannes screening and we cried like lost children. As if that wasn’t enough, the whole beautiful and poignant character study is soundtracked to the sounds of Lou Reed, Patti Smith and Nina Simone. It sees Wenders taking a lifetime of wisdom and distilling it into a meditative tale about the joys of routinely life. Both Wenders and Yakusho break your heart and put it back together again with a unique and delicate potency. Wender's most recent film is a quietly captivating gem about Hirayama, an aging toilet cleaner (Kōji Yakusho, who won this year’s Palme for Best Actor) in Tokyo. An entire retrospective of his oeuvre is being shown at the Lumière Festival, including his new film Perfect Days, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. We’ve got an allocated 10 minutes with this year’s recipient of the prestigious Lumière Prize, the German filmmaker behind such classics as Paris, Texas, Wings of Desire and Buena Vista Social Club.
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