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Aid workers in the Balkans struggle to accomplish the simplest task:聽removing聽a cadaver from a well in a conflict zone. But it becomes聽an impossible mission when in order to do it,聽they must outwit pedantic UN bureaucrats, military factions and exploitative local criminals.
What the film does well is to immerse us in the tragic weirdness of wartime logic, where nothing works as we would expect. It's a strong, engaging film about how hard it is to wage peace.
Del Toro's low-key resignation gives the film what power it has, but the female characters (played by M茅lanie Thierry and Olga Kurylenko) are disappointingly thin.
With an eclectic soundtrack, well-timed editing and crisp cinematography - and of course that terrific cast led by the great Del Toro - A Perfect Day is a rough-edged gem.
[de Aranoa is] a director at home with the small things that can make a film great -- interested in what keeps people together when everything around them is being blown apart. It's a wonderful gift.
A taut, darkly comic drama about the dilemmas of international intervention in civil war, all of it neatly symbolized by one elusive length of rope. It is also, sadly, a film much marred by its sexism.