Mondays in the Sun (Los Lunes al sol)

Mondays in the Sun (Los Lunes al sol)

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Javier Bardem, Luis Tosar, Nieve de Medina, Enrique Villen, Serge Riaboukine

In a northern coastal city of Spain, which turned its back on the countryside long ago and surrounded itself with industries, a group of men make their way through the streets everyday, looking for li...( read more  read more... )fe's emergency exits. Walking the tightrope of precarious employment, taking shelter in their daily conversations and routine--as if the dismal wreck of their lives was not their own. While they talk of their exploits and laugh, at everything and nothing in particular, they try to remain full of hope, relaxed, on a Monday morning in the sun.

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  • November 18, 2009
    good movie, Fernando León de Aranoa great vision of common people.
  • November 16, 2009
    Una pelicula que retrata la crisis economica llegando a los 30 y el vacio que se puede tener con una vida tan solitaria y sin los privilegios que el mismo gobierno da o quita. Bastante buena, con unas actuaciones claras y precisas. Vale mucho la pena... el cine espanol, como siem...( read more)pre, tiene algo que decir y algo que estrellar. Universalmente buena.
  • March 4, 2009
    El personaje principal es completo.
  • January 12, 2009
    Um retrato forte e comovente. Atuacoes brilhantes.
  • August 25, 2008
    Javier Bardem is one of the best actors of our time! Luis Tosar is super hot! I found out that he's in a band too (The Ellas). Having been laid off this movie really hit home... what if I was older and couldn't get another job?
  • August 1, 2008
    Highly emotional and entertaining, this film portrays a palpable image of a group of Spanish men and their lives.
  • May 26, 2008
    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 i...( read more)n modern sociological theory. I immediately began to see the Marxian work parallels in the film and throw in some gender role steroetypes and viola an A sociological paper in one of the most challenging classes in my sociology course load. The film does portray the lives of men who are lost when there place of employment closes and the reactions to start over...Bardem as Santa is sleazy, raunchy, but loving and I LOVE it. It is amazing how handsome men look in beards (Bardem sports one and 15 pounds), thanks dad, the eternal hairy man in my life, who is razorlly challenged
  • November 5, 2007
    The nail is hit smack on the head with this one from Spain.

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