Balkan Mountains—1995. Great opening shot: From under a drain grate, on the bottom of a well, looking up at the sky … no, wait—that’s no grate. It’s the silhouette of an obese, naked, dead man being winched upward, after having been dumped down there, ostensibly by Serbs, to contaminate a Croatian village’s water supply.
Who you gonna call? Corpse busters. Hauling out this human contamination bomb is Mambrú (Benicio Del Toro), the Puerto Rican leader of an international team of four aid workers. Hmm ... looks like that rope is frayed.
(L–R) Benicio del Toro (Mambrú), and Eldar Residovic (Nikola) in Fernando León de Aranoa's "A Perfect Day." Fernando Marrero/© Reposado P.C./Mediaproducción/S.L.U./IFC Films
