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.

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...

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.

This film tells the daily lives of several aid workers in an armed conflict zone in the Balkans. They have to extract a corpse from a well, but are faced with multiple logistical and bureaucratic challenges."A Perfect Day" may look ridiculous and infuriating from the outside, as it tells a story of ridiculous bureaucracy. So if the common goal is to help the people in a war zone, why are there so many restrictions and hurdles to helping others? Well, my workplace is exactly like that, do I can relate to every single minute of it. The subplot about the local boy Nikola is touching, as it provides a glimpse of hope for humanity - sometimes real help is from unofficial sources!