The Girl from Monday (2005)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.5/10   

Director:

Hal Hartley

Guionista:

Hal Hartley (writer)

Género:

Acción | Comedia | Ciencia-Ficción

Plot:

A comic drama about a time in the near future when citizens are happy to be property traded on the stock exchange.

Plot Keywords:

Corporation | Underwater Scene | Sex Criminal | Gun | Suicide

Comentarios de los usuarios:

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

Reparto

Bill Sage	...	Jack
Sabrina Lloyd	...	Cecile
Tatiana Abracos	...	The Girl From Monday
Leo Fitzpatrick	...	William
D.J. Mendel	...	Abercrombie
James Urbaniak	...	Funk
Juliana Francis	...	Rita
Gary Wilmes	...	Adjuster
David Neumann	...	Soldier 1
Ryan Bronz	...	Soldier 2 / Benson
Edie Falco	...	Judge
Paul Urbanski	...	CEO
Michael Cassidy	...	Ted
Normandy Sherwood	...	Emily
James Stanley	...	Doc

MPAA:

Rated R for language, some nudity and brief sexuality.

Duración:

Argentina:84 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) | USA:84 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco | Color

Clasificación:

USA:R | Argentina:13

Locaciones de Filmación:

Jersey City, New Jersey, USA

Compañía:

Possible Films

Citas:

Judge: You are sentenced to two years hard labor - teaching high school.

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.