jlsmi11-609-196563 An under-appreciated and under-read non-fiction account of NGO aid workers throwing themselves into - and becoming addicted to - the most desperate world humanitarian crises, the novel Emergency Sex (and other Desperate Measures) has moved me since first discovering it at a bookshop in Kenyatta Airport, Nairobi. This movie nails the emotion, the frustration, the passion, the resignation and the endurance of some of our worlds' most unheralded heroes. A strong recommend.

lparisi79 I found this movie very vell made. It helps yuo reflecting about absurdity of war. Some scenes are very touching others make you laugh. Great interpretation by Robbins and Del Toro. I suggest you to watch it! It's different from usual films, very original, few speech, great deepness. I wanted it lasted more...

gtyoshida A compelling story begins with a simple event that becomes a complex masterpiece. "A Perfect Day" opens as a group of aid workers in the war torn Balkan region struggle to pull a dead corpse out of the village well before the rotting flesh poisons the water. When their only rope breaks and the body falls back down the well, the team leader Mambru (Benicio Del Toro), his garrulous friend, B (Tim Robbins), the novice aid worker, Sophie (Melanie Thierry), and the local translator, Damir (Fedja Stukan) must drive through the countryside searching for another rope. Disheartened by ridiculous peace protocols, hostile natives, and invisible landmines, they find their only salvation is to act humanly in the present rather than cling to their past beliefs or live for their future dreams. Olga Kurylenko (Katya) and Eldar Residovic (Nikola) round out the cast.

siderite At first I was reluctant to see this film. The trailer showed Americans somewhere in the Balkans, observing the cruelty of war and helping out with their Western sensibilities. I've rarely seen a movie with this subject that I enjoyed.However, A Perfect Day is not that kind of movie. Firstly, it is deeply European! The violence is only hinted at - strange for a film made by a Spaniard :) - yet the viewer is awash in frustrations of the daily life of relief workers: the UN bureaucracy, the indifference of both international authorities and whatever local ones are, the lack of recognition from the people you try to help, lack of resources and going through all kinds of wacky situations.Yet the movie stands strangely on a pervasively optimistic note. The irony of the title doesn't come from the day not being perfect, but because it is the absolute best day in the life of these people, even when they couldn't do anything but not mess up completely.The acting is great, the script was fantastic, it is a worthwhile movie to watch.