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Overview

User Rating:
7.7/10   4,318 votes
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Writers:
Fernando León de Aranoa (screenplay) and
Ignacio del Moral (screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
27 September 2002 (Spain) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
This film is not based on a real story. It is based on thousands.
Plot:
This is the story of those who live in a constant Sunday, those who spend mondays under the Sun. The story of people who worked in a dockyard but now are unemployed. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
39 wins & 18 nominations more
User Comments:
Poignant and Realistic more (35 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Javier Bardem ... Santa

Luis Tosar ... José
José Ángel Egido ... Lino (as José Angel Egido)
Nieve de Medina ... Ana
Enrique Villén ... Reina
Celso Bugallo ... Amador
Joaquín Climent ... Rico
Aida Folch ... Nata
Serge Riaboukine ... Serguei

Laura Domínguez ... Ángela
Pepo Oliva ... Samuel
Fernando Tejero ... Lázaro
Andrés Lima ... Abogado
Antonio Mourelos ... Juez
César Cambeiro ... Fiscal (as Cesar Cambeiro)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
I lunedì al sole (Italy)
Les lundis au soleil (France)
Mondays in the Sun (International: English title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for language.
Runtime:
113 min
Country:
Spain | France | Italy
Language:
Spanish
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital

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Quotes:
Santa: What day is today? more
Movie Connections:
Spoofed in Spanish Movie (2009) more
Soundtrack:
Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu) more

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31 out of 31 people found the following comment useful.
Poignant and Realistic, 9 November 2004
Author: Nick Dets from US

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.

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