2015 · comedy · drama · war
A Perfect Day
Directed by Fernando León de Aranoa1h 46m2015
Somewhere in the Balkans, 1995. A team of aid workers must solve an apparently simple problem in an almost completely pacified territory that has been devastated by a cruel war, but some of the local inhabitants, the retreating combatants, the UN forces, many cows and an absurd bureaucracy will not cease to put obstacles in their way.
Our read: A Perfect Day (2015) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded comedy · drama · war entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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