Midway, Mondays in the Sun becomes as dull as a day with nothing to do.
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09/05/03
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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
Top CriticA strongly constructed and effective drama.
09/05/03
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09/05/03
Simplesmente imperdível.
08/31/03
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08/30/03
The best thing that can be said about this funny, poignant and compassionate film is that watching it is not work.
08/22/03
Top CriticThoughtful and well-acted, but a little flat in the story department.
08/22/03
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08/22/03
Despite overstaying its welcome a wee bit, remains an anthem of insurrection, melding its political and humanistic truths into an almost dreamily subversive film tinged with humor and some small hope.
08/21/03
Bardem proves once again, as he has in movies’ past that he is one of the most talented actors that can be called upon time and time again in the Spanish film world...
08/19/03
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08/18/03
To the patient viewer, the rewards are many, especially Bardem's performance.
08/15/03
Top CriticIt's a long and relatively underdramatized film, but it's powerfully true.
08/15/03
Top CriticAlive with humanity and wit.
08/15/03
Top CriticIt's a grown-up movie about some harsh facts of life.
08/08/03
Much like the lives it depicts, Mondays in the Sun is repetitious, uneventful and, in the end, dull.
08/08/03
It is intensely involving at the outset, but it faces an insoluble problem: The story, like the characters, has no place to go.
08/08/03
Top Critic[De Aranoa is] a gentle, realist social worker, and the well-acted movie he's made to showcase his humanism is incredibly moving.
08/08/03
Top CriticA quintessentially European, methodically paced and intelligent slice of life.
08/07/03
Bardem gives what might have been too slow and plodding a movie its heart and its humor.
08/07/03
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