Cannes Day 11: Wim Wenders’ ‘Perfect Days’ Has Perfect Debut

Meanwhile Catherine Breillat’s “Last Summer,” about an older woman sleeping with her very young stepson, earned a more complicated reaction

Cannes 2023 Wim Wenders and Kōji Yakusho
Cannes 2023 Wim Wenders and Kōji Yakusho

Saturday marks the final day of the Cannes Film Festival, with the usual closing ceremonies and awards presentations along with the out-of-competition premiere of Pixar’s “Elemental.” Let us all hope that Disney release earns better festival notices than Lucafilm’s “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.”

“Perfect Days” makes a perfect debut.

Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days” was the hero of the day, earning strong notices and the now-standard standing ovation. TheWrap’s Nicholas Barber called it “an

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