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Mondays in the Sun (2003)
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Reviews Counted:67
Fresh:53
Rotten:14
Average Rating:6.9/10
Consensus: Thought-provoking, but plodding movie about the effects of unemployment on a group of former shipyards workers.
Theatrical Release:Jul 25, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: A northern Spanish coastal town suffers from its own isolationism as shipyards close down, leaving the labor force scouring the streets for temp jobs with only their stubborn pride to show for it.... [More]
Starring: Javier Bardem, Luis Tosar, Jose Angel Egid, Nieve de Medina
Director: Fernando León de Aranoa
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Reviews for Mondays in the Sun
You're not going to walk out of this one with a smile on your face, but you're going to be happy that you saw it.
07/25/03
This slow, episodic film is held together by the galvanic presence of Javier Bardem.
03/27/03
Top CriticBardem gives what might have been too slow and plodding a movie its heart and its humor.
08/07/03
Throughout, Bardem ... is a potent presence.
03/10/03
Shot in lustrous, muted color with a sure sensitivity to emotional states and mood swings, it's an elegy on wasted time and waning energies.
07/31/03
Top CriticWhat keeps us involved in this perceptive film is the beautiful acting of its cast ... and the way the movie balances grim reality with bits of fancy that feel oddly perfect.
09/12/03
A quintessentially European, methodically paced and intelligent slice of life.
08/07/03
A true, fine and involvingly human piece of work.
08/01/03
The story's rambling, meandering style is just right for the melancholy subject being explored, and all the acting is excellent.
07/25/03
Full of sympathy for the worker's plight.
12/29/03
To the patient viewer, the rewards are many, especially Bardem's performance.
08/15/03
Top Critic'Mondays in the Sun' captures the small drama of the individual buffeted against larger impersonal events of local, national and world politics and economics.
07/23/03
Will look and feel all too familiar to victims of the jobless recovery, or at least those who can afford to see the movie.
10/03/03
Mondays in the Sun is a delightfully understated snapshot of life. Director/writer Fernando León de Aranda has captured a bit of the melancholy of displacement...
07/25/03
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.
12/28/03
Engaged filmmaking that makes a political point, and the observant script and incisive direction give it considerable power.
07/29/03
Mondays in the Sun is a deeply ethical movie that has a universal quality to its depiction of the soul-destroying capacities of unemployment.
07/25/03
A well-acted, realistic look at unemployed shipyard workers in northern Spain alternating humor with pathos.
03/12/03
A cannily observant but withholding film in which nothing happens, over and again.
07/24/03
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