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A Perfect Day (2015 film)
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Wikipedia article
'A Perfect Day' is a 2015 Spanish comedy-drama film written and directed by Fernando Len de Aranoa. It is based on the novel 'Dejarse Llover' by Paula Farias. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and is the directors English-language debut.
Plot
Veteran humanitarian aid workers Mambr (Benicio del Toro) and B (Tim Robbins), and newcomer Sophie (Mlanie Thierry), accompanied by their interpreter Damir (Fedja tukan), try to retrieve a corpse from a well somewhere in former Yugoslavia at the end of the Yugoslav Wars.
Their first attempt fails because their rope tears, so they set out to find another rope, which turns out to be more difficult than expected. They are joined in their endeavor by Mambr's former lover Katya (Olga Kurylenko) and a young local boy named Nikola.
Cast
*Benicio del Toro as Mambr
*Tim Robbins as B
*Olga Kurylenko as Katya
*Mlanie Thierry as Sophie
*Fedja tukan as Damir
*Eldar Residovic as Nikola
*Sergi Lpez as Goyo
Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 71% approval rating, based on 58 reviews. The consensus reads: "Aid workers get their due in 'A Perfect Day', which is just different and well-acted enough to overcome its logy pace and narrative clichs". On Metacritic, the film holds a score of 59 out of 100, sampled from 15 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
Manohla Dargis of 'The New York Times' said that, the film is "a serviceable, watchable movie". Lou Lumenick of the 'New York Post' and Henry Barnes of 'The Guardian' compared the film's humor to that of 'M*A*S*H', while Chris Nashawaty of 'Entertainment Weekly' criticized female characters of Mlanie Thierry and Olga Kurylenko for being "disappointingly thin".
Awards and nominations
Benicio del Toro was presented with the honorary award, Heart of Sarajevo, at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
See also
* List of Spanish films of 2015
References
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