Mondays in the Sun (2002)

Very best movie i ever watch

Simply A Masterpiece

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Just like most of Ken Loach's movies slightly obvious in its depiction of proletarian misery, but nonetheless touching and gritty working-class cinema with a fine ensemble cast and a good eye for telling details.There's a feeling of been-there-seen-that to the proceedings, but the narrative flows naturally and lots of insightful little vignettes and an air of human kindness ensure two hours of viewing pleasure beyond the common escapism.Bardem's great as usual!7 out of 10 unorthodox bedtime readings

AKA: Mondays In The SunI have no idea what I just watched. Three men wander aimlessly and drink, grousing about everything and at everyone in their path. This is supposed to be a drama, but what it is, is a total waste of film, without a single redeeming quality.I have read reviews touting the performances herein as "wonderful," "beautiful," and "heroic." I'm afraid I cannot agree, unless these men were supposed to come off as the dumbest most ignorant proto-humans who ever walked.All in all? This was not a movie. It wanders throughout and loses everyone but the audience. I've watched this three times, and cannot for the life of me see what anyone sees in this garbage. There is nothing profound here, whatsoever. It's crap.It rates a ZERO/10 from...the Fiend :.

This is the story of a group of former workers in a Spanish ship-building company and it has a gritty, realistic feel which doesn't necessarily make it great. Yes, it has it's funny moments and yes, it does capture the ennui and the growing hopelessness and impotence that unemployment, especially long-term unemployment, brings to the jobless, as well as the strains and stresses that it puts on those around them but it's all a bit too bleak and imagines itself to have a deeper running emotional relationship with the audience than is actually there. Perhaps something is lost in the translation in the English subtitles but for me this film was, a bit like Withnail & I, more a set of scenes than a whole, coherent movie and it lacks the same appeal. In ways, it is as much a story about growing older as it is about unemployment. I did feel that the characters weren't very fleshed out. We have very little of their past to go on and very little to say why they are the way they are. Maybe it's because the film is trying to play on it's own 'Siamese twin' metaphor and that it is a multi-faceted character which is the sum of all the characters' parts that we are supposed to look at, that the pride, the doubt, the anger, the quiet desperation and the persistence of spirit are in every one of these people and that if one falls, they all fall. It's possible that's what the makers went for but it's weak and tenuous in it's implementation and the metaphor is more for reference to the failure of the union strikes which preceded the end of their days in the shipyard. I'm quite a fan of foreign language films and Javier Bardem's last movie 'The Sea Inside' was one of the best that I've seen recently. However, this offering really didn't do much for me. Like I always seem to comment these days, the acting in the movie was excellently played but due to their lack of depth, these were more types than characters. If 'The Full Monty' was a light-hearted look at hope, inspiration and the pursuit of happiness and folly against a backdrop of unemployment then this is quite the opposite. This is more a look at the prison and the inmates of unemployment and in this movie, there are no great escapes!

This is a great movie about middle aged men being put out to pasture. The movie actually is a film rather than a verbal story glued to a bunch of special effects. The story is told by the focus of the camera, the objects pictured, and a tilt of a head, rather than by a bunch of talking. This is what film is about. Thank God the Europeans didn't forget it. To a large extent, American filmakers have. If you like movies about the human experience that give you fresh insight, see this movie. It is to film what "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is to poetry. Except that the main character struggles to remain a strong and virile man in the face of emasculaing business, while Prufrock was more of a frightened person in the face of discovering his mediocrity.