The most impactful side-story involves a young boy named Nikola (Eldar Residovic) who Mambrú picks up after seeing him bullied for his soccer ball. Through their day journey, we get the difficulties and delays of navigating a war torn nation such as this, as well as the political roadblocks that come up through the United Nations in spite of everyone there wanting to help the situation, and the people of this region.
The film has a compelling tale to tell as we follow this teams search for a rope to lift this body out. Rounding out the team is their translator Damir (Stukan) who puts up with each of their idiosyncrasies plays the straight man to them all. Tim Robbins is the wacky, wild-card named “B”, who has been there so long, he is going to face the danger with nothing but humor, even it means freaking out the new face of the group Sophie (Thierry) by dealing with a possible mine-trapped road by doing a very risky stunt. Complicating things, however, is the arrival of his ex-lover Katya (Kurylenko) who has arrived to audit their usefulness in the field and possibly shut them down. Despite this, he is planning on leaving in a matter of days to join his American girlfriend back in the states and settle into a domestic life, away from all of this death. Each of the cast members elevates a script that otherwise would not be as fully engaging as it is under their care.īenicio Del Toro plays Mambrú, the head of security of this outfit who has been here a long time, and has seen so much that nothing fazes him. The cast is impressive as it features Benicio Del Toro ( Sicario, Guardians of the Galaxy), Tim Robbins ( Shawshank Redemption, Bull Durham), Olga Kurylenko ( Quantum of Solace, Oblivion, The Water Diviner), Fedja Stukan ( In the Land of Blood and Honey), and Mélanie Thierry ( The Zero Theorem, Babylon A.D.). In so doing, they find themselves surrounded by the realities and politics of war. Seeking to remove the body before it contaminates the water source, these relief workers must simply find a good rope to help lift the body out of the well.
Where the first film mentioned is a look at the Holocaust, this film also features a war theme, albeit with a slightly different lens.Ī Perfect Day depicts a 24 hour period where relief workers in the 1995 Balkans conflict are tasked with removing an extremely obese man’s corpse from one of only three known mine-free wells. A Perfect Day features a director, Fernando León de Aranoa, who is making his English speaking film debut after a number of Spanish films like Barrio and Prencesas. Son of Saul, another film opening this week , is a new film featuring a filmmaker making his feature length debut. A Look At Humanitarian Efforts In The 1995 Balkan Conflict
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