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Girl From Monday, The

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5.5 User Score:

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Based on 13 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Action  |  Comedy  |  Sci-fi

Written by: Hal Hartley

Directed by: Hal Hartley

Release Date:
Theatrical: April 15, 2005

Running Time: 84 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Starring Bill Sage, Sabrina Lloyd, Tatiana Abracos, Leo Fitzpatrick, D.J. Mendel, James Urbaniak, Juliana Francis, and David Neumann

A funny and thought-provoking farce told in the rhythms of a sci-fi thriller. (Possible Films)

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

75

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

Hartley's soft spot for offbeat romances is trumped by irony and sloganeering dialogue.

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75

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

There's heavy influence from the "Brave New World" brand of dystopian fantasy, but engaging performances and a stylized visual approach lend it originality.

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70

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

Flaky, funny, and sexy.

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63

New York Post V.A. Musetto

Not one of Hartley's most successful efforts, but it's witty, daring, different and a welcome alternative to Hollywood pap.

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60

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

There's ample opportunity here for a sharp consumerist satire, like a dryer cousin to the candy-colored pop-culture send-up “Josie And The Pussycats,” but Hartley misses his own joke.

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50

Variety Robert Koehler

Unconvincingly attempts to update the futurist dystopian traditions of Orwell, Huxley and William Gibson.

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50

Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell

As satire, it doesn't add up -- but it's an admirable, if dull, experiment.

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50

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Hartley's score is lovely and he makes excellent use of digital video, but the film's paucity of provocative ideas is its undoing.

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50

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

Numbing story.

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38

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Hartley's satire of consumer-driven sexuality is undermined by the straight-faced decision to cast affectless model Tatiana Abracos as the heroine.

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30

The New York Times Stephen Holden

Evokes a mood of tenderness. Beyond that, it is a weightless, sentimental and intellectually lazy effort from an independent filmmaker whose movies seem increasingly insubstantial.

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20

Village Voice Ed Halter

A monotonous, unenlightening experience.

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20

Film Threat Peter Hanson

A profoundly unnecessary movie, The Girl From Monday is an embarrassment.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 5.5 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Jacob G. gave it an8:
This thoughtful film takes a lot of well-engineered dialog and brings incranational ideas - what it means to be human and what it means to be an individual in a world where personal investment into insensitive corporate structures is the only way to survive. I disagree with the assessment that this is another 1984 - rather, it suggests that despite our corporate environment, individuals call the shots for themselves and their lives depend on their choices. For a movie whose description sounds like a b-rate porn film, the issues are dealt with in a way that is academic, if not tasteful.

Ace W. gave it a3:
To say this film relied to heavily upon narration to drive the plot would be an understatement of monumental proportions. I get it, advertising/media is manipulating our society and we, as consumers seem to be all too happy to let it happen. As commentary it works slightly yet as a satire, which I can only imagine it was intended to be, it falls very flat. The problem is the film is not very subtle, so Hartley almost becomes as bad as those he wishes to indict. I kept getting the feeling of Hartley saying “Hey don’t listen to what ads tell you, instead listen to me.” I didn’t care one bit what happened to any of the characters, and had so little emotional involvement with them that I nearly laughed when one of them was shot. That said, some of the camera work was interesting and the score was well done. All in all, I liked it better the first time I read it when it was called 1984.

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