“A Perfect Day” – a sense of irony [MOVIE REVIEW]
Mélanie Thierry (Sophie), Olga Kurylenko (Katya), Eldar Residovic (Nikola) and Benicio del Toro (Mambrú) in Fernando León de Aranoa’s A PERFECT DAY. Courtesy of Fernando Marrero. © REPOSADO P.C. and MEDIAPRODUCCIÓN S.L.U. An IFC Films release. “A Perfect Day” is a truly international co-production directed by Fernando León de Aranoa and written by Aranoa and Diego Farias. De Aranoa also served as one of the producers, indicating how passionately he felt about this project that illustrates the political, logistical and emotional difficulties encountered every day by a group of international humanitarian aid workers trying to sort through the chaos of the Balkan war and bring much needed assistance. They run into roadblocks at every turn, whether from UN soldiers, local warring factions, Serbian soldiers secretly still carrying on their Bosnian genocide despite a cease fire or even aid workers within their own group. Aranoa assembled an all-star cast including Benicio del Toro, Tim Robbins, Spanish/French actor Sergi Lopez, Russian beauty Olga Kurylenko, Bosnian Fedja Stukan and French rising star Mélanie Thierry. Certainly missions such as the one portrayed here are peopled with…
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