Pssst, want to check out The Girl from Monday in our new look?
Information
- Year
- 2005
- Runtime
- 84 min.
- Director
- Hal Hartley
- Genres
- Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
- Rating *
- 5.3
- Votes *
- 841
- Checks
- 94
- Favs
- 2
- Dislikes
- 4
- Favs/checks
- 2.1% (1:47)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:2
Top comments
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Siskoid
The Girl From Monday is a longer piece in the same video style, and ambitiously, a piece of science fiction. In this world (and Sabrina Lloyd's role as co-protagonist can't help but recall Sliders), everything is marketed, including human intimacy. It's become illegal to engage in relations off the books, for love or lust rather than market share and raising one's value. Things are complicated by the coming of alien "immigrants" translated into human bodies (like the eponymous Girl), and by a counter movement to which the protagonists adhere. Contemporary New York here subs for "the future", which is fine, though the film stumbles whenever it tries to do "genre" too much (show futuristic tech or do fight scenes). As with The Book of Life, the fantastical trappings are merely tools for the film maker to discuss philosophical concerns, and The Girl From Monday comes off as a good little dystopian short story with something interesting to say about consumerism and intimacy, with human performances from Lloyd and co-star Bill Sage. 8 years 10 months ago