❝It's an important moment, your first corpse. You never forget it. It's like your first girlfriend or the first time you get laid. I remember the first time I got laid, but my first corpse? That shit is burned into my memory.❞
𐄁─────⋆⁺‧₊☽ ◯ ☾₊‧⁺⋆─────𐄁

A Perfect Day is a brilliant blend of tenderness and brutality, with a generous sprinkle of wry humour. It's easy to forget how important aid workers are, but this film is a reminder that they carry out often thankless but crucial work to help civilians survive. It's also a reminder about the atrocities of war; I'm not familiar with all the details of the Yugoslav Wars, but the fact that people saw no hope and chose to end their lives speaks volumes about how suffering and swiftly changing mindsets turn the world into a very cruel place. The cinematography really reflected this; sweeping natural landscapes were juxtaposed with hollowed out ghost towns, intensified by the bleak colour palette.
The cast all did excellently, but to me Benicio del Toro and Tim Robbins stood out the most; they both had great comedic delivery and emotional depth when needed, and worked well with all their colleagues.
Though A Perfect Day's subject matter may not be for everyone, I'd still highly recommend giving it a watch just for the acting from its cast members.

→ side note: benicio del toro is so 🫦😩🙏❤️‍🔥

❝It's an important moment, your first corpse. You never forget it. It's like your first girlfriend or the first time you get laid. I remember the first time I got laid, but my first corpse? That shit is burned into my memory.❞
𐄁─────⋆⁺‧₊☽ ◯ ☾₊‧⁺⋆─────𐄁

A Perfect Day is a brilliant blend of tenderness and brutality, with a generous sprinkle of wry humour. It's easy to forget how important aid workers are, but this film is a reminder that they carry out often thankless but crucial work to help civilians survive. It's also a reminder about the atrocities of war; I'm not familiar with all the details of the Yugoslav Wars, but the fact that people saw no hope and chose to end their lives speaks volumes about how suffering and swiftly changing mindsets turn the world into a very cruel place. The cinematography really reflected this; sweeping natural landscapes were juxtaposed with hollowed out ghost towns, intensified by the bleak colour palette.
The cast all did excellently, but to me Benicio del Toro and Tim Robbins stood out the most; they both had great comedic delivery and emotional depth when needed, and worked well with all their colleagues.
Though A Perfect Day's subject matter may not be for everyone, I'd still highly recommend giving it a watch just for the acting from its cast members.

→ side note: benicio del toro is so 🫦😩🙏❤️‍🔥

y'a pas assez d'adjectifs péjoratifs dans la langue française pour décrire la b.o

y'a pas assez d'adjectifs péjoratifs dans la langue française pour décrire la b.o

75/100
Really liked this one — great intimate representation of the war.

75/100
Really liked this one — great intimate representation of the war.

Story is underbaked but it felt authentic in its approach and the bosnian war tends to be glossed over in the cinematic arts. There were things that irked me, but defintely scenes that made up for it with subtle and realistic unpleasantness. Acting is solid.

Story is underbaked but it felt authentic in its approach and the bosnian war tends to be glossed over in the cinematic arts. There were things that irked me, but defintely scenes that made up for it with subtle and realistic unpleasantness. Acting is solid.

I've been a fan of Benicio (Del'Toro) since he popped up as Robert Davi's henchman back in the second Timothy Dalton Bond film, 'Licence to Kill'. So it was a surprise to me to see he was in this film as I'd never even heard of it. I came by it as I was browsing through the films on 'Kodi'.

Now, Benicio has made some stinkers over the years since, but in 2015 his stock jump to dizzying heights after his performance of Alejandro in the blistering Sicario. And it seems his second film of last backs up his worth.

Here, he plays aid worker Mambrú, working in the war-torn Balkans trying to resolve an issue of a dead body in a well and the struggle of red-tape and the lack of a good rope, with which to facilitate this problem.

The one noticeable thing about 'A Perfect Day' is how good the dialogue is. Witty in places but mostly smart and intelligent. It doesn't spoon feed the viewer and instead, relies on you to concentrate on the events unfolding.

Tim Robbins plays B, right hand man to Mambrú. He plays him with the morbid, zany war-weary attitude you would expect someone of his calibre to have. It's a shame the roles for Robbins have dried up as he proves he can be as likeable as ever.

The set pieces and locations are terrific and really capture a country, ravaged by civil conflict and the after effects of such an atrocity.

Somehow, the film manages to inject a decent amount of humour, without it being taken in the wrong context. This is where the genius in the writing lay. The film isn't afraid to shock one minute and make you chuckle the next.

The plot picks up a young boy by the name of Nikola (Elder Residovic), along the way, which gives the film some charm but also heartache. Without this part of the story, the narrative could easily carry on, but it is to the films further advantage that this was written in.

'A Perfect Day' is a fantastic film and one I would highly recommend. I'm shocked it wasn't marketed well enough to reach the masses. The film was given a 10 minute standing ovation at Cannes and it really isn't surprising.

I've been a fan of Benicio (Del'Toro) since he popped up as Robert Davi's henchman back in the second Timothy Dalton Bond film, 'Licence to Kill'. So it was a surprise to me to see he was in this film as I'd never even heard of it. I came by it as I was browsing through the films on 'Kodi'.

Now, Benicio has made some stinkers over the years since, but in 2015 his stock jump to dizzying heights after his performance of Alejandro in the blistering Sicario. And it seems his second film of last backs up his worth.

Here, he plays aid worker Mambrú, working in the war-torn Balkans trying to resolve an issue of a dead body in a well and the struggle of red-tape and the lack of a good rope, with which to facilitate this problem.

The one noticeable thing about 'A Perfect Day' is how good the dialogue is. Witty in places but mostly smart and intelligent. It doesn't spoon feed the viewer and instead, relies on you to concentrate on the events unfolding.

Tim Robbins plays B, right hand man to Mambrú. He plays him with the morbid, zany war-weary attitude you would expect someone of his calibre to have. It's a shame the roles for Robbins have dried up as he proves he can be as likeable as ever.

The set pieces and locations are terrific and really capture a country, ravaged by civil conflict and the after effects of such an atrocity.

Somehow, the film manages to inject a decent amount of humour, without it being taken in the wrong context. This is where the genius in the writing lay. The film isn't afraid to shock one minute and make you chuckle the next.

The plot picks up a young boy by the name of Nikola (Elder Residovic), along the way, which gives the film some charm but also heartache. Without this part of the story, the narrative could easily carry on, but it is to the films further advantage that this was written in.

'A Perfect Day' is a fantastic film and one I would highly recommend. I'm shocked it wasn't marketed well enough to reach the masses. The film was given a 10 minute standing ovation at Cannes and it really isn't surprising.