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A Perfect Day

2015

Fernando León de Aranoa

Tim Robbins, Benicio del Toro, Olga Kurylenko, Mélanie Thierry ...

6.6

16,475

Drama A group of aid workers tries to remove a cadaver from a well in a conflict zone. Somebody threw it into the well to spoil the water, so people won’t drink. But the simplest task becomes here an impossible mission where the real enemy could be irrationality itself. The workers cross the frenzied war landscape trying to fix the problem, like guinea pigs in a maze. Sophie wants to help people, Mambrú wants to go home, Katya once wanted ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Tipping its hat to antiwar screen comedies that came out of the counterculture movement like Catch-22 and MASH (...) the good-looking film’s humor is low-key to a fault, and its characters don't always generate the sparks that the script intends"	NEU
United Kingdom	Henry Barnes The Guardian	"[A] well-meant, but wobbly, tonal mishmash about the tragi-comic bureaucracy of post-conflict (...) Inconsistency is A Perfect Day’s biggest problem (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"Despite the appreciably restrained, low-key approach, the character-driven humor never finds a proper groove (...) The film has to overcome more than a few flat"	NEU
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"It’s M.A.S.H. in Bosnia (...) Spanish director Fernando Leon de Aranoa doesn’t take quite such a desecratory line as that evergreen Altman classic, but he does aim some refreshing potshots at a few taboos"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"There’s not much of a story, which wouldn’t be bad if there was something other than blasts of music filling the longueurs (...) [It] is a movie of moments, some quite fine"	NEU
United States	Robert Abele Los Angeles Times	"A regrettable meander through standard antiwar sentiments."	NEG
United States	Glenn Kenny rogerebert.com	"De Aranoa gets off some very authentic-looking tableaus (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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