Spirituality and cinema

Perfect Days by Wim Wenders

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/1677-1222.2025vol25i1a11

Keywords:

Cinema, Wim Wenders, Matin Buber

Abstract

Perfect Days is perhaps Wim Wenders' most spiritual film in a
trajectory that brings together several works of the same content, such as Wings of Desire;
Faraway, So Close! or Palermo Shooting. So it is that in a violent world pointing to an
apocalyptic scenario, Perfect Days expresses the spiritual journey of a director who, in
contemporary language, shows the presence of the divine in the small things and the
dialogical relationship of a person with the world, as found in the philosophy of Martin
Buber, in Tarkovsky's thought and in the testimonies of Etty Hillesum and Mahmoud
Darwish, with whom a conversation is maintained in this essay.

Author Biography

Katia Marly Leite Mendonça, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARÁUNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO PARÁ

Bolsista de Produtividade do CNPq.Professora Titular da UFPA- Universidade Federal do Pará.Bolsista de Produtividade do CNPq. Possui Bacharelado em Ciências Econômicas pela Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado de São Paulo (1980), mestrado em Ciências Sociais pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (1988) e doutorado em Ciência Política pela Universidade de São Paulo (1997). Realizou Pós-Doutorado em Ética na Universidad Pontifícia Comillas (2007 e 2010). Pesquisadora associada do grupo de pesquisa Fundamentos filosóficos de la idea de solidaridad: alteridad, diálogo, barbarie (Universidad Pontificia Comillas/Madrid). Membro do PPG- Programa de Pós Graduação em Ciências da Religião da UEPA - Universidade do Estado do Pará e do PPGSA- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia e Antropologia da UFPA - Universidade Federal do Pará. Trabalha no momento com estudos voltados para a relação entre ética, arte e sociedade. Artigos disponíveis para consulta em:https://ufpa.academia.edu/KATIAMENDONCA/Papers

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2025-12-31

How to Cite

Mendonça, K. M. L. (2025). Spirituality and cinema: Perfect Days by Wim Wenders. REVER: Journal for the Study of Religion, 25(1), 174–187. https://doi.org/10.23925/1677-1222.2025vol25i1a11

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Vol. 25 No. 1 (2025): Religião e Cinema

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Dossier 1/2025: Religion and cinema

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