The Girl from Monday
United States
2005
84 Min
Color, Black and White
English
Synopsis
A creature from a planet orbiting Star 147X in the constellation “Monday” comes to Earth, seeking another creature from the same place who followed the same path long ago. She meets up with Jack Bell, an ad executive who secretly moonlights as the leader of a revolutionary cell. In the advertising world, the connection between value, youth, and sexuality are now explicitly interwoven: citizens are proud to be stock options whose market value goes up or down depending on their sexual activity, and having sex just because it feels good rather than because it increases your credit rating is against the law. –inbaseline
Director
Hal Hartley
Hal Hartley, Jr. (born November 3, 1959) is an American film director, writer, and pioneer of the independent film movement, who was educated at the State University of New York at Purchase.
Hartley graduated and moved to New York City in 1984. He shot his feature film debut, The Unbelievable Truth, in 1988 and remained extremely active in the years that followed; producing feature films like Trust, Simple Men, Amateur, and Flirt. Unlike most feature film directors, Hartley also continued making short films, many of which have been collected in a DVD anthology.
His films were often noted for dialogue that was simultaneously philosophical and humorous. In the early 90s, he often composed and performed the music for his films under the pseudonym Ned Rifle. —wikipedia
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Karthik
19Apr12
I can't make up my mind about this movie. On the one hand, there is something hypnotic about the contrast between the jerky visuals & the meditative voice-over; it focuses one oddly on what is being said; on the ironies (the alien starts the revolution - when human enough starts the counterrevolution; the counterrevolution is good for business too). BUT the preached isolationism is somehow not aesthetically earned.
Charles Deckert
8Mar12
For its originality in finding a means to express the marketplace's dehumanizing means of turning people into objects of profit and gain and how those same people are led on to believe it is what they've personally wanted all along, etc., it seems to trip into the usual pitfalls most original films on dystopian societies of the near future, where the story manages to complicate things in its uneven fitting...
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