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Perfect Days

Name: Perfect Days
Director: Alice Nellis
Released: 2011
Duration: 108 min

Representation Score

5.6/10

Fair

2011

Director

Alice Nellis

Runtime

108 minutes

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Alice Nellis presents a character-driven narrative that explores the complexities of modern womanhood, challenging traditional gender roles and expectations. However, the film remains limited by its focus on heterosexual relationships and a relatively homogenous European setting. It lacks significant representation of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds and LGBTQ+ identities. Overall, the film offers a nuanced look at contemporary identity, emphasizing the internal lives of women rather than traditional structural clichés.

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Category Breakdown

Does Perfect Days have LGBTQ+ representation?

Fair

The story focuses on heterosexual relationships and the search for a male partner, without any clear representation of LGBTQ+ individuals or critiques of heterosexuality.

How does Perfect Days portray gender?

Good

The film challenges the stereotype of passive women by featuring a successful, independent professional. It examines the tension between professional success and societal expectations around motherhood.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Perfect Days?

Fair

Set in Prague, the film depicts a relatively homogeneous European population. There is no indication of a diverse cast driving the plot.

How does Perfect Days represent religion and culture?

Good

The story avoids idealized family scenarios by showing strained maternal relationships and existential conflicts. It emphasizes individual control over traditional family or institutional stability.

Does Perfect Days include disability representation?

Minimal

There are no visible or invisible disabilities shown among the characters.

Present on Screen

Challenges the stereotype of passive women through a successful, independent professional.
Explores feminist ideology and the tension between career and motherhood.
Avoids idealized family clichés by focusing on complex interpersonal relationships.

Limited or Absent

Lacks explicit LGBTQ+ representation or perspectives.
Limited racial and ethnic diversity, reflecting a more homogeneous European population.
Focus remains heavily centered on traditional heterosexual relationships.

Official Synopsis

Celebrity hairdresser Erika might seem to have it all: a successful business, her own TV show, stylish modern loft in center of Prague, designer clothes, lots of friends and an ever-loving mother with a housework fixation. However, as Erika reaches her 40th birthday, all of a sudden here comes the deafening tick of her biological clock.Erika wants a baby and it has to be now or never. She is longing for a young life, even though she finds her own mother hard to get close to. The trouble is, she needs a man. The film follows in the lines of trashy genres, but at the same time it plays with them and by stressing 'gender themes' it even enters the poetics and ideology of feminism.

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