![]() ![]() Universal is distributing the film in Spain. “A Perfect Day” has pre-sold to TF1 in France, X Verleih in Germany, September Films in Benelux, Praesens in Switzerland, United King in Israel, ECS in the Middle East, Spentzos in Greece, Czech Republic’s Delta, VTI in former Yugoslavia, Malaysia’s Suraya and M-Net in South Africa. Because there is no place on earth where it is more necessary,” Leon maintains. 'A Perfect Day' may look ridiculous and infuriating from the outside, as it tells a story of ridiculous bureaucracy. They have to extract a corpse from a well, but are faced with multiple logistical and bureaucratic challenges. “The wittiest comments, comedy at its wildest and grittiest, its most desperate, often happens in the very midst of tragedy. LONDON - Variety has been given exclusive access to the trailer of Fernando Leon de Aranoa’s A Perfect Day, which stars Benicio Del Toro, Tim Robbins, Olga Kurylenko, Melanie Thierry and. This film tells the daily lives of several aid workers in an armed conflict zone in the Balkans. Like cars in the mud, like the trucks in ‘The Wages of Fear,’ like the aid workers on the ground,” Leon said, just before shooting last year.īut Leon’s hallmark humor - which won him a San Sebastian Golden Seashell for Javier Bardem-starrer “Fridays in the Sun” - has not deserted him, the teaser also underscores. “Fast, direct, rough, a race against the clock, this film has no time to waste. The teaser suggests that Leon’s “Day” will be much faster-paced, have more tension, than the director’s previous Spanish-language films - “Family,” “Barrio,” “Mondays in the Sun,” “Princesses,” “Amador” - all variants of social dramas. One-minute long, the teaser will be screened to buyers by WestEnd Films, a London-based sales and film financing company, at next week’s European Film Market in Berlin. “Humor, drama, emotion, routine, danger, hope: It all fits in a perfect day.” But the simplest task, the film’s synopsis runs, becomes an impossible mission where the real enemy could be irrationality itself. ![]() Then, together, they have to haul a dead body out of a well. Sold by WestEnd Films, “A Perfect Day” zeroes in on the disparate agendas of five conflict zone aid workers: Sophie (Thierry) still wants to help people, Mambru (Del Toro) just wants to go home, Katya (Kurylenko) once wanted Mambru Damir (Stukan) wants the war to end and B (Robbins) doesn’t know what he wants.
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