Average Rating: 7/10
Reviews Counted: 69
Fresh: 55 | Rotten: 14
Javier Bardem gives an outstanding performance in this hought-provoking (though occasionally plodding) movie about the effects of unemployment on a group of former shipyard workers.
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 5
Javier Bardem gives an outstanding performance in this hought-provoking (though occasionally plodding) movie about the effects of unemployment on a group of former shipyard workers.
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Set in the Spanish port city of Vigo, Fernando León de Aranoa's Mondays in the Sun is a touching drama about a group of working-class men who find themselves suddenly unemployed and unwanted in their middle age. Laid off from the local shipyard, the men spend their days at the town bar, where they reminisce, philosophize, and commiserate about their current state. Gruff Santa (a bearded Javier Bardem) puts up a tough front, refusing to sink into self-pity, and occasionally pricking his friends'
Jul 25, 2003 Wide
Nov 18, 2003
Lions Gate Films
All Critics (76) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (56) | Rotten (14) | DVD (5)
In these days of cutbacks and belt-tightening, its story has a strong resonance.
A small, intimate film that moves viewers with its passion.
Midway, Mondays in the Sun becomes as dull as a day with nothing to do.
The best thing that can be said about this funny, poignant and compassionate film is that watching it is not work.
It's a long and relatively underdramatized film, but it's powerfully true.
To the patient viewer, the rewards are many, especially Bardem's performance.
Delicado drama que, com seu elenco coeso encabeçado por um Bardem vigoroso e intenso, funciona como um testemunho do impacto psicológico e moral provocado pelo desemprego numa economia em recessão.
Bottom feeder, out of work adventurers busying themselves with basically anything that will keep the terror of an abyss called the future at bay.
Moving, often hilarious examination of masculine frustration with a sharply observed script and impressive performances from its cast.
Another staggeringly strong performance by Javier Bardem.
Bottom feeder, out of work adventurers busying themselves with basically anything that will keep the terror of an abyss called the future at bay.
Full of sympathy for the worker's plight.
Si Los Lunes al Sol es una película tan humana, tan sensible y tan reveladora es porque hemos visto esos personajes acá nomás, a la vuelta de la esquina.
Okay, I'm saying it: Javier Bardem is the next Robert De Niro.
Will look and feel all too familiar to victims of the jobless recovery, or at least those who can afford to see the movie.
Thanks to Bardem's performance the film finds plenty of sublime moments.
Seems born not of contrivance but genuine, hurtful truth
A timely little slice of desolation.
If nothing else, watch it for Javier Bardem, who is rapidly establishing himself as among the world's very best at his craft
So I got an A on a paper that I used this film to describe Marxian theory...wow...I am brilliant. The film was great but it was more of a gift because I caught about 50 minutes of it on IFC with the paper being due within weeks, I was lost on how I was to use film or literature in modern sociological theory. I
May 26, 2008
This is a story of jaded dreams, and everlasting tomorrows. The film Los Lunes al Sol is brought together with acting mastery and a tale too timeless to forget. The main character Santa and his friends have lost their jobs at the shipyard. Unfortunately for the people of Vigo, South Korea?s cost-effective ships tore
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