The Girl from Monday Reviews

Pretty badly muddled film that tries too hard to say something meaningful. Blurry action, stuttering frames, a voice over from the main character that borders on a monotone, and beautiful bodies that never reveal anything meaningful. The corporation makes the rules, adding commercial value to society is everything, and sex is the coin that drives the economy. Add to that extra-terrestrials who come to earth to retrieve those who have come before, and then get stuck here themselves. Counter-revolutionaries think they are making a difference, but their violence only feeds the appetite of the almighty corporate giant. Dark, moody, and so obscure as to render it almost unintelligible, this viewer really can't recommend it.

[font=Century Gothic]"The Girl from Monday" takes place in the near future when a corporation named Triple M has overthrown the government, making everything available - for a price. Jack(Bill Sage) who works for a firm that handles the advertising for Triple M is secretly a counterrevolutionary. He sends a group of kids to disrupt a government news broadcast but something goes horribly wrong and a bomb explodes, killing ten. Distraught, Jack retreats to the beach where he comes across a woman(Tatiana Abracos) appearing out of the ocean.[/font]

[font=Century Gothic]"The Girl from Monday" has some interesting ideas about idealism in a corporate culture.(For example, teaching in a high school is a form of forced labor.) But the movie's style is too close to "La Jetee" for it to be considered a success.[/font]

I love some of Hal Hartley's earlier work, but this movie is a complete disaster. DVD extras and behind-the-scenes footage are worth watching if you're a Hartley fan, the movie itself is not.

Almost a great film. It's too tedious and self conscious to be truly enjoyable. But I still love Bill Sage.

Interesting idea and well done considering the obvious low budget, but still could have been better.

Interesting concept and some solid acting make for an intriguing story, that the film image quality does a dis-justice to.

[font=Century Gothic]"The Girl from Monday" takes place in the near future when a corporation named Triple M has overthrown the government, making everything available - for a price. Jack(Bill Sage) who works for a firm that handles the advertising for Triple M is secretly a counterrevolutionary. He sends a group of kids to disrupt a government news broadcast but something goes horribly wrong and a bomb explodes, killing ten. Distraught, Jack retreats to the beach where he comes across a woman(Tatiana Abracos) appearing out of the ocean.[/font]

[font=Century Gothic]"The Girl from Monday" has some interesting ideas about idealism in a corporate culture.(For example, teaching in a high school is a form of forced labor.) But the movie's style is too close to "La Jetee" for it to be considered a success.[/font]

Welcome to the future. Everyone tries to have sex with each other to increase their market value, but there is a catch to this sex, you can't fall in love. Such a liberal logic gone horribly wrong - you have a guy who is an alien or something who is stuck on Earth, an Earth that is ran by a monopoly called M3. This corporation controls everything, and if you have things like books or opinions, you get sent to the moon.

Yes, that is seriously the concept behind this movie. It was also recorded in some really odd fashion that probably did irreparable damage to my eyes, but it could be my DVD player. It did cost less than forty bucks. I think I was the only person that didn't fall asleep while the movie was playing, mainly because I wanted to see the inevitable sex scenes that were to come.

They never came. I'm so pissed at this waste of a free movie rental coupon that I can't even tell you exactly why this movie sucks. Just watch it. If you like it, more power to you. And before someone thinks, "Oh, you just don't get it." Oh, I get it. After researching the logic behind stories involving dystopian societies, I understand this movie quite a bit. I understand it enough to know that if movies were turds, this turd wouldn't float.