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The Girl from Monday

  • 2005
  • R
  • 1h 24m
IMDb RATING
5.2/10
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The Girl from Monday (2005)
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A comic drama about a time in the near future when citizens are happy to be property traded on the stock exchange.A comic drama about a time in the near future when citizens are happy to be property traded on the stock exchange.A comic drama about a time in the near future when citizens are happy to be property traded on the stock exchange.

  • Director
    • Hal Hartley
  • Writer
    • Hal Hartley
  • Stars
    • Bill Sage
    • Sabrina Lloyd
    • Tatiana Abracos
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.2/10
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    • Director
      • Hal Hartley
    • Writer
      • Hal Hartley
    • Stars
      • Bill Sage
      • Sabrina Lloyd
      • Tatiana Abracos
    • 15User reviews
    • 24Critic reviews
    • 45Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 1 win total

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    Bill Sage
    Bill Sage
    • Jack
    Sabrina Lloyd
    Sabrina Lloyd
    • Cecile
    Tatiana Abracos
    Tatiana Abracos
    • The Girl From Monday
    Leo Fitzpatrick
    Leo Fitzpatrick
    • William
    D.J. Mendel
    D.J. Mendel
    • Abercrombie
    James Urbaniak
    James Urbaniak
    • Funk
    Juliana Francis
    Juliana Francis
    • Rita
    Gary Wilmes
    Gary Wilmes
    • Adjuster
    David Neumann
    • Soldier 1
    Ryan Bronz
    • Soldier 2…
    Edie Falco
    Edie Falco
    • Judge
    Paul Urbanski
    Paul Urbanski
    • CEO
    Michael Cassidy
    Michael Cassidy
    • Ted
    Normandy Sherwood
    • Emily
    James Stanley
    • Doc
    Jennifer Seastone
    Jennifer Seastone
    • Martha
    • (as Jenny Seastone Stern)
    Tanya Perez
    Tanya Perez
    • Theresa
    Matt Kalman
    Matt Kalman
    • Nick - Bartender
    • Director
      • Hal Hartley
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      • Hal Hartley
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    2Bernie4444

    Keeps having to explain its self

    Consumer goods corporation takes over the world.

    The first alien corrupts the world and himself.

    Revolutionaries are also good for the economy.

    The second alien (The girl from Monday) searches for the first alien.

    Will the second alien also get corrupted?

    Or will she save alien number one?

    Or are they both stuck here forever?

    And who cares?

    The pace of the movie can challenge a snail.

    The loud background noise cannot pass for music.

    Luckily, they did not try too much CGI as it is a very stationary story.

    Lots of potty mouth but no really gratuities sex scenes.

    Even the DVD extras are boring and non- informative.
    alex-825

    American Godard

    Is this Hartley following Godard's footsteps and becoming "political"? Political commentary is never interesting, unless it is executed in an interesting way. Luckily, this is one of those cases.

    I'm amazed at the quality of the shots considering they used a DCR-VX2000 for this movie. How many cameras did they use? One I suspect.

    Hartley's World is that of an intelligent essayist, specially since he quit making movies like "Surviving Desire" and "Trust". "Theory of Achievement" was heavily influenced by "La Chinoise", as much as the form of a "short" could take it. Here we have the same intent, but turned into a fictional narrative. It works, but only if you understand the reasoning behind it.
    9kerecsen

    The oddest Harley film yet

    Being a huge fan of the films that Hartley did in the 90's, I couldn't wait to see this movie at Sundance. In fact it was one of the two movies I absolutely had to see (the other one was Mirrormask).

    I can't say that I got what I expected. The movie proclaims itself to be a "Science fiction film by Hal Harley". It is neither science fiction (unless you count Kurt Vonnegut as science fiction), nor a typical Harley film. The special effects that you expect in a science fiction are nowhere to be found. In fact, big chunks of the movie aren't even in technicolor.

    The whole movie is shot with very long exposure times and frame rates reaching down to 5-10 fps, leading to a totally dreamlike look.

    But enough about technicalities... 'As I said the movie was a surprise but a very pleasant one. Harley uses his favorite themes of alienation (this time with actual aliens) and random, but very deep personal connections. He paints a weird but very familiar world of people treating sex as a means to getting what they want -- but with a quite interesting twist. Other current subjects, like civil liberties (ie: the lack thereof) and teenage crime are also treated to a round of deep black, dripping irony.

    All in all I would recommend the movie, but not as a mindless Friday-night excursion. I give it an A.
    8nanelikek

    a meditation on sex and interpersonal distance at times of not-too-distant future advanced capitalism

    It is a typical Hal Hartley in terms of the mood he creates. Long in-door shots, the disconcert between sound and sight. As always he uses cheap material. for instance one suspects that the black goggles that the cops wear -with the red light in the center- may be like a 10 dollar toy bought from Chinatown. But this combined with the camera moves and lights allows him to create a different world that is often visually convincing. Although I heard people in the audience murmur about the connection with the space being unconvincing, I totally disagree.

    It is a meditation on capitalism where the term 'flesh market' gets literal. He weaves this theme in with reflections on the sense of the extremeness of the boundaries between individuals in modern capitalist society. How one feeds the other, in fact makes the other possible. I found it very successful although sometimes a bit didactic.
    8jib122-1

    deep movie if you have the skill to look past production value

    I would like to suggest to those who comment on this film, of which there are many, that if one is to judge this movie as 'simplistic' or trite, then one has to answer a set of questions raised by the film -

    1. What is the relation between embodiment and desire? Hartley raises this beautifully with the presentation of the girl, and intertwines it with the other themes (among many!) that I would like to point out.

    2. What is the role of Christianity in this film? The word become flesh, the girl reading a study bible, the interviewer asking Jack if he is religious, and the idea of sacrifice and martyrdom all raise this issue in interesting and provocative ways. (this is especially interesting considering the film's conclusion and the question it raises about the possibility of a messiah in a capitalist context (i.e. where "value" only means monetary value))

    3. What is the relation between desire and the structures of society? Does desire resist that power structure, or is it rather created by that power structure? The film raises the question of whether or not the resistance that is possible is also "good for business," and suggests that desire is fully malleable by the power structure. BUT, it also opens the possibility for real resistance, without being overly optimistic about this.

    There are many many other interesting questions raised by this wonderful and thoughtful film, but these are just a few that immediately strike me as central, and which do not seem to play a role in the criticism of the film voiced by many of its detractors.

    It is important to develop the skill to enjoy many types of film - important insofar as it simply increases pleasure in watching film - and so it is best to be able to ignore problems with the low production value and bad acting and to enjoy it for its strengths, rather than focus on the negative and not enjoy one's time with the film.

    P.S. Anyone else wondering about the references to Homer's Odyssey in the film? So many questions . . .

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    Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
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      While Cecelia is listening back to test scores, one student's name mentioned is "Warren Cuccurullo", the name of a guitarist who's played with Frank Zappa, Missing Persons and Duran Duran.
    • Quotes

      Jack: There was a dictatorship of the consumer now. What most people wanted most of the time, and were willing to pay for, was good. Whatever defied the logic of the market was bad. Automatic world. Disposable income was the chief revolutionary virtue. Everyone had what they wanted, always. As long as they did their part and threw themselves, body and soul, towards the aim of economic supremacy.

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    • Release date
      • July 19, 2005 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • The Possible Films Collection (United States)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Девушка из понедельника
    • Filming locations
      • Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
    • Production companies
      • Possible Films
      • The Monday Company
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $921
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 24m(84 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White
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