Rotten
A taut, darkly comic drama about the dilemmas of international intervention in civil war, all of it neatly symbolized by one elusive length of rope. It is also, sadly, a film much marred by its sexism.
Kate Taylor, Globe and Mail
A Perfect Day
2015 · 1h 46m · R
Comedy, Drama, War
Directed by
Fernando León de Aranoa
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A Perfect Day
Overview
Somewhere in the Balkans, 1995. A team of aid workers must solve an apparently simple problem in an almost completely pacified territory that has been devastated by a cruel war, but some of the local inhabitants, the retreating combatants, the UN forces, many cows and an absurd bureaucracy will not cease to put obstacles in their way.
Director and cast
- Fernando León de Aranoa Director
- Benicio del Toro as Mambrú
- Tim Robbins as B
- Olga Kurylenko as Katya
- Mélanie Thierry as Sophie
- Feđa Štukan as Damir
- Eldar Rešidović as Nicola
- Sergi López as Goyo
- Nenad Vukelić as Nikola's Grandfather
- Morten Suurballe as UN Official at the Briefing
- Ben Temple as UN Official's Assistant
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
70%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A Perfect Day is a war story told on a small scale. It's all the more powerful for its subtlety.
Liz Braun, Toronto Sun
Fresh
This is one of those rare, thoughtful war movies that doesn't emphasize brutality.
John Hartl, Seattle Times
Fresh
With an eclectic soundtrack, well-timed editing and crisp cinematography - and of course that terrific cast led by the great Del Toro - A Perfect Day is a rough-edged gem.
Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
The film may be scattershot and odd, but it needs to be odder still.
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
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