A Perfect Day
A Perfect Day
R | 15 January 2016 (USA)
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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.

Reviews
Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!
Pluskylang Great Film overall
Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
landapa This is the beauty of it. For a long time I have given up on American entertainment. Living in the US one gets constantly inundated with mindless entertainment. European movies are in general slow. They give much more time to develop the characters and thus allow the story to sink in. A Perfect Day is a great movie that shows the cultural differences and people from different countries tries working together for a common goal. It also shows the ineptness of the UN which is true all over the world.where ever they are asked to intervene. Great movie.
ddobson-86777 **SPOILERS because I want to save you from wasting your time with this movie!**When the movie started, I saw the IFC logo and an alarm went off in my head but I couldn't remember why. I would later find out that it was because this film embodies the worst in independent movies.The plot of this movie can be accurately summed up in two sentences: A group of aid workers drive around Yugoslavia looking for rope to fish a corpse out of a well. They fail. The end.What makes the movie awful is that it lacks anything to make it interesting besides the scenery and Tim Robbins' character having a few good lines. There is in character development, no message, no conflict, and no resolution. It just literally goes nowhere; I'm sure there are some lame film snobs who think this makes the movie "unique" or whatever but for the majority of people who watch movies to be told a story or be entertained it not only falls short but doesn't even try. The whole movie is just the cast driving around asking random Bosnians for rope and and getting denied at every turn for no reason. Throughout the movie they are paranoid about landmines and RPGs but I didn't hear a single explosion in the entire movie so it made the cast seem paranoid while breaking my suspension of disbelief.The writers in this movie definitely seem to have some sort of anti-UN agenda for whatever reason as evidenced by the movies bad ending where the UN literally sends an army of men with automatic weapons and tanks to stop the cast from removing the corpse from the well for some made up reason that really just seemed like bad writing to give the movie an unhappy ending just for the sake of having an unhappy ending in a lamely transparent attempt to make the film seem more "indie" or something. Independent movies with sad endings can still be really good (an excellent example of this is Donnie Darko) but with this movie it just made seem like over an hour and a half of frustration with no payoff. Watching this movie made me feel like I sat in traffic for over an hour and half to get somewhere only to find the place was closed and I sat in all that traffic for nothing.After the great army of the UN succeeds in their super-important mission to keep a corpse in a well they order the cast to clean the overflowing latrines in the overcrowded refugee camp, a task that should been reserved for whomever wrote this movie.Don't waste your time with this pile of garbage, you will regret it.
SnoopyStyle Mambrú (Benicio Del Toro) is the world-weary leader of a group from 'Aid Across Borders' trying to help sanitation in the war-torn Balkans. He reconnects with his conflict-evaluater ex Katya (Olga Kurylenko). He deals with UN bureaucracy, problematic locals, and a body stuck in a well. The irreverent B (Tim Robbins) and translator Damir (Fedja Stukan) go off in search of rope to pull out the body. The idealistic newcomer Sophie (Mélanie Thierry) is exasperated. There's the boy looking a ball. It's a day in the life.I like that this takes this serious world and use a small part to run the plot through. It's like a little hamster running around in a wheel. There is a bit of humor and plenty of poignant sadness. It's a little slow at times but it never lets go. It's great that it gets tied together in the end.
adonis98-743-186503 A group of aid workers work to resolve a crisis in an armed conflict zone. Although slow paced the film "A Perfect Day" succeeds on many levels thanks to a cast of talented people such as Benicio Del Toro, Tim Robbins, Olga Kurylenko and even some new faces such as Mélanie Thierry. The film is mostly about this aid workers that try to take a dead body out of a pit but they can't do that because the government thinks that there might be some explosives down there as the film continues we meet a young boy called Nikola played by Eldar Residovic who is also good we learn about his backstory about his parents and his grandpa but he also tries to help our characters to find a rope in order to get that body out of there. Although in the end that doesn't happen but it happens in a different way that i won't spoil it's by no means a perfect movie but it's for sure a really good one and a surprising well made one i give it a 7.5 out of 10.