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Mondays in the Sun

Original title: Los lunes al sol
  • 2002
  • R
  • 1h 53m
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7.5/10
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Javier Bardem and Luis Tosar in Mondays in the Sun (2002)
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This is the story of those who live as if every day was a constant Sunday, those who spend their Mondays in the sun. The story of people who worked in a dockyard but are now unemployed.This is the story of those who live as if every day was a constant Sunday, those who spend their Mondays in the sun. The story of people who worked in a dockyard but are now unemployed.This is the story of those who live as if every day was a constant Sunday, those who spend their Mondays in the sun. The story of people who worked in a dockyard but are now unemployed.

  • Director
    • Fernando León de Aranoa
  • Writers
    • Fernando León de Aranoa
    • Ignacio del Moral
  • Stars
    • Javier Bardem
    • Luis Tosar
    • José Ángel Egido
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    • Director
      • Fernando León de Aranoa
    • Writers
      • Fernando León de Aranoa
      • Ignacio del Moral
    • Stars
      • Javier Bardem
      • Luis Tosar
      • José Ángel Egido
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    • 69Critic reviews
    • 64Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 47 wins & 19 nominations total

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    Javier Bardem
    Javier Bardem
    • Santa
    Luis Tosar
    Luis Tosar
    • Jose
    José Ángel Egido
    José Ángel Egido
    • Lino
    • (as José Angel Egido)
    Nieve de Medina
    Nieve de Medina
    • Ana
    Enrique Villén
    Enrique Villén
    • Reina
    Celso Bugallo
    Celso Bugallo
    • Amador
    Joaquín Climent
    Joaquín Climent
    • Rico
    Aida Folch
    Aida Folch
    • Nata
    Serge Riaboukine
    Serge Riaboukine
    • Serguei
    Laura Domínguez
    Laura Domínguez
    • Ángela
    Pepo Oliva
    Pepo Oliva
    • Samuel
    Fernando Tejero
    Fernando Tejero
    • Lázaro
    Andrés Lima
    • Abogado
    Antonio Mourelos
    • Juez
    César Cambeiro
    • Fiscal
    • (as Cesar Cambeiro)
    Antonio Durán 'Morris'
    Antonio Durán 'Morris'
    • Director Banco
    • (as Antonio Durán Morris)
    Luis Zahera
    Luis Zahera
    • Administrativo Astillero
    • (as Luis Castro)
    Luisa Martínez
    • Funcionaria INEM
    • (as Maria Luisa Martínez)
    • Director
      • Fernando León de Aranoa
    • Writers
      • Fernando León de Aranoa
      • Ignacio del Moral
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    mimds

    an impressive movie...

    I watch 'Mondays in the sun' last night and it impressed me really... Sorry guys but I usually prefer European-especially Mediterranean ones- movies much more than Hollywood productions... Like some of the others, there is a simple story there but very sincere and sensitive, that makes you feel deep inside...After watching any movie, I would like to feel the taste for some days...Sometimes you can easily forget what you have watched in several hours, but those kind of movies makes me feel something warm deep inside even it's dramatic athmosphere... Also the soundtrack is wonderful... For me it is a five-star production... Thanks so much for all who made it... (A+)
    10pi4630

    Excellent

    Two movies, one topic. I have watched "The pursuit of happiness" first and "Los lunes al sol" (http://www.IMDb.com/title/tt0319769/) a couple of days later. Both movies have the same rating on IMDb.com and this is frankly not the case. "The pursuit of happiness" is a remix of the "one in a million" idea: one guy against all odds, facing the worst situation, makes it. I know this is a true story, but the story of *just one* who "makes it" (which can be compared to a lottery win - because how *many* people are out there trying?) may lead to the illusion that - as long as you "want" - you *can* make it. Sort of "hang on" movie. "Los lunes al sol" instead shows you what happens to the rest - to the non - Chris Gardeners of this world and is much more realistic. The fact that "The pursuit of happiness" was nominated for an Oscar confirms that we are encouraged to watch movies which consider the fate of one, not of manys. Absurd. "Los lunes al sol" is a must see.
    8khatcher-2

    A hard time we had of it, just the worst time

    February, 2001 says the calendar inside the wharf-side bar; Rico splashes out the drinks and his precocious 15 year-old daughter Nata (Aïda Folch) looks on, absorbing the intensity of fiery language: her father's customers are unemployed boat-yard workers, drifters over forty, approaching fifty.

    Fernando León de Aranoa, basing himself on the real lay-offs which happened in the boatyards of Gijón (Asturias) ten years earlier, and indeed using footage from newsreports, reconstructed his own story and transferred the proceedings to Vigo (Galicia) in the extreme north-west of Spain. The resulting `Los Lunes al Sol' is a social document portraiting a few men `on the dole' and their sombre outlook, however not lacking in sparkling humour and witty dialogues.

    The year 2002 will be remembered as the year of `Hable con Ella' (qv) and `Los Lunes al Sol', a year in which mostly men take first place on the screen, moving the ladies to one side. Heroically, considering Spanish masculine mentality, there is no macho-building exercise in force in either of these two excellent films. The two films have competed head-on at the San Sebastián film festival, as well as in the Spanish Film Academy to be chosen to represent Spain for the Oscars, and so on, and have come out more or less level. If my personal preference is Almodóvar's superb dramatical piece, this in no way deflects from `Lunes al Sol', a magnificent sociological drama which even manages to creep in to certain foibles and other typicalisations without any cheapening effect which would have been detrimental to the telling of the story.

    Javier Bardem is superb and magnificently backed up by Luis Tosar and José Angel Egido, and there are no superlatives for Celso Bugallo's lesser but extremely important part as Amador. Joaquín Climent as the bar-owner Rico is absolutely correct, and the Russian Serge Riaboukine is spot on. And the ladies ……….? Well, definitely in secondary roles, but Nieve de Medina as the suffering wife – Ana – working in the sea-food canning plant gives a resounding interpretation, and Laura Domínguez as Angela is fine. But all eyes are fascinated by fifteen year old Aïda Folch as the precocious daughter, who observes all and learns from it, and applies her own methods to reach her own goals. She gets a baby-sitting job, hires `Santa' to do the job for her, so that he pockets 3,000 pesetas (about $20), she keeps 2.000 pesetas as commissions, and hops off to seek out her boyfriend. In her other film, `El Embrujo de Shanghai' (qv), alongside Fernando Tielve, directed by Fernando Trueba, we see she has that natural coquettish way which is going to take her very very far in the world of cinematography. I only hope she stays in Spain to do so, she keeps her beautiful little head well and truly planted on her shoulders, and does not suddenly disappear over the other side of the Atlantic, as so often happens to our prodigies.

    You come away from this film feeling that you have barely ever seen a team pull so hard together to make the result work: the film has a significant message to transmit and it had to do so through skillfully worked characteriology driven by dialogues that shift from the retrospective to the witty, through scenes that move from outright funny to downright sad. It works: the Spanish public identify with these `real' characters and natural language replete with non-dictionary spicey terms, as these men live out their empty, frustrating life of unemployment.

    Excellent work here by the young director Fernando León de Aranoa: I shall be looking forward to seeing more of his films, and no doubt I shall acquire the video of `Los Lunes al Sol' as soon as it is in the shops.
    8dominik96

    the essence of so many sad lives

    How do you imagine the life of an unemployed without family, possession or future? Dull is certainly one of the answers, but this movie does the utmost of this basic story! It's a great achievement to tell something so boring without becoming itself dull and boring. At some points it is even funny and every minute is well done. Really intelligent script with great actors. Especially the actor of Santos! By far the best way to get a glimpse of a life nobody wants to have. It isn't a movie for everybody, because it isn't an easy popcorn movie. The presence of your mind is required but you will be certainly rewarded with an insight that you'll hopefully never experience.
    Nick_Dets

    Poignant and Realistic

    No film has ever captured the depression and delight of the ordinary working man as realistically as "Mondays in the Sun". Watching it brought me back to the gray days of growing up when I would see my father's tired face and wonder what joy he can possibly be getting that pulls him through the pressure filled, cold and seemingly endless cycle of working hard day in, day out.

    Javier Bardem plays the not-ever-to-be-defeated Santa, a strong-willed, but down on his luck guy who just got laid off from a comfortable job at a shipyard. He takes refuge in a buddy's bar with all his friends/co-workers who share the same misfortune. On top of all the problems anchoring him down, Santa must pay a hefty fine for destroying a light by the shipyard. For one week, he tries to run from these injustices and bothers, and he sojourns with his dreams.

    What director Fernando Leon de Aranoa understands is that no matter how much joy we can have in a given amount of time, there is always the weight of work and responsibility to come back to. In the dreary life of the working man, things gets so routine that the magic of being young and having dreams is lost and gone forever. Aranoa's characters are all faced with the joy and bad luck of being unemployed. In this short time of pressure and paradise, they find escape and salvation in what seems like a limbo of meaninglessness. One of the film's best characters is a surreal, random friend of someone in the group who claims he was once an astronaut. By looking into his starry eyes, it is easy for the viewer to understand that this group of people have all found release in dreaming about getting to leave the earth as well.

    It may not amount to the world, but I loved "Mondays in the Sun" because it knows the ordinary joys and pains of those struggling in the lower or middle class. What is truly beautiful about this film is how all of the characters seem at their most desperate, but somehow there is the assurance that maybe the light is not out forever.

    (3 out of 4)

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    • Trivia
      Mondays in the Sun (2002) was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 75th Academy® Awards, but it was not nominated.
    • Goofs
      When Jose looks up towards the wall clock in his apartment, the second hand is running backwards, counterclockwise.
    • Quotes

      Santa: What day is today?

    • Connections
      Featured in ¿Dónde estabas entonces?: 1983 (2018)
    • Soundtracks
      On the Otherside of the World
      Written and Performed by Tom Waits

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    • Release date
      • September 27, 2002 (Spain)
    • Countries of origin
      • Spain
      • France
      • Italy
    • Official sites
      • Official Site
      • Official site (Netherlands)
    • Language
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Güneşli Pazartesiler
    • Filming locations
      • Vigo, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
    • Production companies
      • Sogepaq
      • Elías Querejeta Producciones Cinematográficas
      • Mediapro
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    • Budget
      • $4,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $153,256
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $22,401
      • Jul 27, 2003
    • Gross worldwide
      • $9,832,663
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 53 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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