A Perfect Day achieves its goal of brutalizing war with simple acts, like when a kid pulls out a gun when fighting over a ball, or when a store-owner can't sell his rope because he has them reserved for hangings, or when a shy adolescent watches over an empty warehouse, but is spurred with hope for protecting its flag. Extreme in the sense that you show a gore- fest and lots of blood and death, or an extreme where you try to cover up everything and have only descriptions from characters of passed events. When touching upon the subject of war, it is very easy to be extreme. What most surprised me about A Perfect Day was the incredible balance it has.
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Essentially the movie is a road-trip through the Bosnian countryside, letting you catch a glimpse of the situation that the locals lived in and still live in today. The story intensifies when Mambru picks up a lost local kid named Nikola Eldar Residovic who had his soccer ball stolen by bullies, and finally Mambru's ex shows up Olga Kurylenko to evaluate the situation in the Balkans. It's the body of an obese man, which later symbolizes of the dreading weight that the group is trying to relieve without help from the UN or the locals, all trying to help a country they barely know. The film opens with Mambru trying to take a dead body out of a town well. We have Mambru Benicio del Toro the group's unofficial leader and head of security, the wisecracking B Tim Robbins, the rookie Sophie Melanie Thierry, and their translator Damir Fedja Stukan. A Perfect Day tells the story of a group of aid workers working in the midst of the Balkan crisis in 1995. The film is made by Spaniards, told in English, and takes place in the Balkans, a very curious mix, which nonetheless produced one of the best films of the year. This brings us to A Perfect Day the newest film from Spanish director Fernando Leon de Aranoa. įrom awards and shut out from the box office doesn't mean foreign films don't have quality, just look at the great Italian films Cinema Paradiso or Life is Beautiful, or at Jacques Tati's film repertoire, Almodovar and Amenabar in Spain, Michael Haneke in Austria, and the great master Miyazaki and Kurozawa in Japan. At one point, one of the characters, seeing Olga Kurylenko for the first time, mutters under his breath, "And so where is she from – Models without Borders?" The sub-plot involving the young Bosnian boy, Nikola, who attaches himself to the team, is also great.This is a powerful film that is authentic in its treatment. The impressive cast features American Tim Robbins, Spaniard Benicio del Toro, Ukrainian Olga Kurylenko who was a Bond girl in A Quantum of Solace, Frenchwoman Melanie Thierry, and Bosnian Fedja Stukan.
In addition, the dialogue and acting were great. The civilian-military interaction was all too familiar, as were the many scenes with Stryker armored personnel carriers, a common sight during my time in Iraq.I thought the film provided a very good feel for the frustrations of development work in a war setting. This is familiar to me too, since I work in a multinational OSCE Mission. Second, the cast itself is multinational, reflecting the multinational character of international assistance efforts. Now I know "konopac" means rope and "bunar" means well! The landscape in some of the scenes was amazing, and makes me curious to see more of Bosnia now. First, of course, I live in the Balkans now, so the language and setting was familiar.
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