Manohla Dargis of The New York Times said that, the film is "a serviceable, watchable movie". On Metacritic, the film holds a score of 59 out of 100, sampled from 15 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". The consensus reads: "Aid workers get their due in A Perfect Day, which is just different and well-acted enough to overcome its logy pace and narrative clichés". On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 71% approval rating, based on 58 reviews. They are joined in their endeavor by Mambrú's former lover Katya ( Olga Kurylenko) and a young local boy named Nikola. Their first attempt fails because their rope tears, so they set out to find another rope, which turns out to be more difficult than expected. Veteran humanitarian aid workers Mambrú ( Benicio del Toro) and B ( Tim Robbins), and newcomer Sophie ( Mélanie Thierry), accompanied by their interpreter Damir (Fedja Štukan), try to retrieve a corpse from a well somewhere in former Yugoslavia at the end of the Yugoslav Wars. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and is the director’s English-language debut. It is based on the novel Dejarse Llover by Paula Farias. Starring Rob Lowe, Paget Brewster, Fransis Conroy, Christopher Lloyd.A Perfect Day is a 2015 Spanish comedy-drama film written and directed by Fernando León de Aranoa. With only a few mild profanities and a couple of brief moments of sexual tension, this sweet and sentimental reminder of what things should be valued most may be just what your holiday celebration needs to make it A Perfect Day. When one of these is presented with a deadline, Rob is forced to take stock of his ambitions and consider his priorities before time runs out.īased on a novel by Richard Paul Evans, this made-for-TV movie pits fame and fortune against home and family, eventually culminating in a Christmastime gathering. Even more disquieting are the self-proclaimed prophet’s accusations and doomsday predictions about the writer’s future. Moving in bigger and grander literary circles, beckoned by more lucrative deals and spending long hours with an attractive marketing agent (Rowena King), he soon forgets the little people behind his success.Īround the same time Rob encounters an ominous old man (Christopher Lloyd) who seems to know all about him. True to her word, she schedules an extensive promotional tour that propels his story to the top of the bestseller list, while at the same time keeping the budding author away from home.Īlthough he misses his family, Rob can’t resist being swept up in his newfound fame and self-importance. Although it seems like a long shot, especially with the arrival of several rejection letters, Rob eventually finds a publisher willing to take a chance on his manuscript.Ĭamile (Frances Conroy) is not only confident she can plug his book titled A Perfect Day, but she also warns the Harlans to expect their quiet lives to change. Loving and supportive, Allyson optimistically tells her dejected spouse to see his employment situation as a blessing and encourages him to finish writing a novel he has been working on secretly. However, he confesses the truth to his wife (Paget Brewster). Confused and disappointed he tells his father (Jude Ciccolella) and daughter (Maggie Geisland) he resigned, hoping that will make him look like less of a failure. So he is completely unprepared when instead he is fired. Robert Harlan (Rob Lowe) heads to work one perfect morning prepared to accept a previously offered promotion.
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