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A Perfect Day: un jour comme un autre

Original title: A Perfect Day
  • 2015
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 46m
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6.8/10
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A Perfect Day: un jour comme un autre (2015)
A group of aid workers work to resolve a crisis in an armed conflict zone.
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A group of aid workers work to resolve a crisis in an armed conflict zone.A group of aid workers work to resolve a crisis in an armed conflict zone.A group of aid workers work to resolve a crisis in an armed conflict zone.

  • Director
    • Fernando León de Aranoa
  • Writers
    • Fernando León de Aranoa
    • Diego Farias
    • Paula Farias
  • Stars
    • Benicio Del Toro
    • Tim Robbins
    • Olga Kurylenko
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.8/10
    24K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Fernando León de Aranoa
    • Writers
      • Fernando León de Aranoa
      • Diego Farias
      • Paula Farias
    • Stars
      • Benicio Del Toro
      • Tim Robbins
      • Olga Kurylenko
    • 87User reviews
    • 127Critic reviews
    • 60Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 4 wins & 24 nominations total

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    A Perfect Day: Please, Don't Agree With Me (French Subtitled)
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    A Perfect Day: Please, Don't Agree With Me (French Subtitled)
    A Perfect Day: A Dead Dog Is Not A Corpse (French Subtitled)
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    A Perfect Day: A Dead Dog Is Not A Corpse (French Subtitled)

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    Benicio Del Toro
    Benicio Del Toro
    • Mambrú
    Tim Robbins
    Tim Robbins
    • B
    Olga Kurylenko
    Olga Kurylenko
    • Katya
    Mélanie Thierry
    Mélanie Thierry
    • Sophie
    Fedja Stukan
    • Damir
    Eldar Residovic
    • Nikola
    Sergi López
    Sergi López
    • Goyo
    Nenad Vukelic
    • Nikola's Grandfather
    Morten Suurballe
    Morten Suurballe
    • UN Official at the Briefing
    Ben Temple
    Ben Temple
    • UN Official's Assistant
    Frank Feys
    Frank Feys
    • UN Official at the Well
    Ivan Brkic
    • Store Owner
    Antonio Franic
    • Soldier at the Storage
    Goran Navojec
    Goran Navojec
    • Bosnian NGO Driver
    Dragica Stojkovic
    • Cow Lady
    Goran Grgic
    • Commander at the Checkpoint
    Slaven Spanovic
    Slaven Spanovic
    • Soldier at the Checkpoint
    Mate Gulin
    • Local Old Man
    • Director
      • Fernando León de Aranoa
    • Writers
      • Fernando León de Aranoa
      • Diego Farias
      • Paula Farias
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    User reviews87

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    7deloudelouvain

    Aid workers in the Balkans

    A Perfect Day tells the story of a group of aid workers during the Balkan War. The daily problems they encounter to do their job as good as possible. Don't expect much action or so because the story is just them trying to find a piece of rope so they can extract a dead body out of a well. Seems easy but in a hostile environment where all the concerned parties are not willing to help it becomes a challenge. Even though there is not much action the story is enjoyable to watch. Add on that first class actors and you get a good movie that is worth a watch. Benicio Del Toro and Tim Robbins are always a delight to watch and in A Perfect Day they do what we are used of them. The script is good, the actors are good, the filming is good, and there is even a bit of humor. Entertaining movie.
    9Evanoil

    A perfect film

    Worth every penny and minute you will spend on it. Just as i was thinking it is impossible to make a good movie without love scenes and explosions , this one came.This movie manages to keep you interested and hooked up without any special trying , its has a simple plot and funny moments there are set very smartly in order to deliver a very nice feeling through all of the movie. Good word to the casting group , the actors very good and well chosen . I also must say that i had no boredom moment through the whole film what so ever , i really was surprised about how well this movie was done without putting in it minimum amount of effort .Its worth mentioning that the movie ,even though it is a little subliminal , is telling a story about a conflict and its told without any extreme was scenes so any audience can watch it.
    8DesiAnge

    Beautiful film

    Beautiful film. I would say even a masterpiece! An excellent acting game,good scenario and cinematography.

    Somewhere in the 90s. At the Balkans. The war in Bosnia. A group of aid workers from different countries are trying to help in the middle of a huge after war mess. Trying to do what could be done - in the present case to find a rope, which they could use for taking out corpse from the а well - the only source of fresh water for the local people. During the rope seeking they ran into a bunch of funny or dramatic (mostly both in the same time) situations, but it couldn't be otherwise at the Balkans. ;)

    To me "A Perfect Day" is a movie for little things and little actions, which lead to a big change for people.

    I highly recommend this movie to all fans to European cinema and to everyone who wants to see something different from all meaningless crap, which flooded us from Hollywood lately.
    9mike_uyehara

    Gritty but authentic examination of aid work in a war zone

    I just saw a Spanish film that probably enjoyed a limited release in the U.S., although the dialogue is mostly in English – A Perfect Day. In the film, a team of aid workers faces a problem, a corpse is contaminating a well that provides the only potable water in the region, since two other wells are surrounded by mines and cannot be used. The film follows the group as they try to obtain a rope to lift the body out of the well, and examines the difficulties of executing such a small task in a war zone, in this case, the waning days of the Bosnian conflict.

    The film resonated with me on several levels. First, of course, I live in the Balkans now, so the language and setting was familiar. (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. Second, the cast itself is multinational, reflecting the multinational character of international assistance efforts. This is familiar to me too, since I work in a multinational OSCE Mission. 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. In addition, the dialogue and acting were great. 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. 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. I recommend it.
    8YoungCriticMovies

    Perfecto: A Spanish Film That Exemplifies The Resurgence of Spanish and Foreign Cinema

    Foreign films rarely get the proper recognition in the English speaking world, be that the US or Great Britain. Only recently have foreign films been allowed to compete in categories other than Best Foreign film at the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes still relegate them to the Foreign Film category. If we look at the box-office results we see an even more drastic condition. The highest grossing foreign film of all time in the US is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which made $127 million, something the small Pitch Perfect film achieved in 2011 which much less effort. But being shunned from 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. This brings us to A Perfect Day the newest film from Spanish director Fernando Leon de Aranoa. 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.

    A Perfect Day tells the story of a group of aid workers working in the midst of the Balkan crisis in 1995. 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). The film opens with Mambru trying to take a dead body out of a town well. 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 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. 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).

    What most surprised me about A Perfect Day was the incredible balance it has. When touching upon the subject of war, it is very easy to be extreme. 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. 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. It is these little details littered in the story that really give you the sense of suffering and dread that can be seen in times of war.

    In terms of the acting, it was also very well balanced. You had Robbins as the comic relief, and Del Toro as the speaker of truth. Both actors give an incredible performance, with visible yet admirable improvisation. Meanwhile the supporting cast also is incredibly solid. The more known names of Olga Kurylenko and Melanie Thierry do a fine job, but the surprises here were in the local actors: Fedja Stukan and Eldar Residovic who both give incredibly raw and layered performances that have us longing to console them, yet you never once pity them in the undignified sense.

    Then the cinematography is also very simple, but yet contains a few flourishes and Director of Photography Alex Catalan (Marshland, Unit 7) gives the movie a cold almost wintery look that makes the message and harshness of the story fall sharper and hit you harder.

    Finally, the script was incredibly witty and quick. The character development in the two hours of running time is so smooth you barely notice it, but when comparing the characters at the beginning and at the end of the movie you see how subtle Leon de Aranoa was (especially with the character Sophie). The dialogue is absolutely delicious, with the best being quirky exchanges between B and Mambru.

    In the end this film, again, exemplifies that "there is life outside the US" and that foreign cinema (in particular Spanish cinema) is growing and cultivating fresh crops of new artists. And in a world of war and sorrow, art is sometimes the only window of hope.

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    • Trivia
      After the public screening of the film during the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs 2015 (director's fortnight) at Cannes Festival, on the 16th of May 2015, the director and actors present (Benicio Del Toro, Mélanie Thierry) received a five-minute standing ovation.
    • Goofs
      Near the start when B and Sophie are driving along the cliff, the aerial shot shows the cliff to be on the left of the road. Then a shot from inside the car shows trees in the background where the cliff was. The when they stop in front of the dead cow, the cliff is on the right side.
    • Quotes

      B: Welcome to Konopac, the Rope Capital of the World. Population: 5. I'm B, I'll be your tour guide this afternoon and I'm pleased to be with you on this lovely day.

    • Crazy credits
      During the opening, credits are introduced as if created out of the live motion of a drop of water. This water theme continues through the acting credits.
    • Soundtracks
      Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
      Written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart (as David Stewart)

      Performed by Marilyn Manson

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    • Release date
      • March 16, 2016 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • Spain
    • Official sites
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      • Official site (Germany)
    • Languages
      • English
      • Serbian
      • Spanish
      • French
      • Bosnian
    • Also known as
      • A Perfect Day
    • Filming locations
      • Alquife, Granada, Andalucía, Spain
    • Production companies
      • Canal+ España
      • Mediapro
      • Orange
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $14,044
    • Gross worldwide
      • $4,069,691
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 46 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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