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Mondays in the Sun (Spanish: Los lunes al sol) is a 2002 drama film directed by Fernando León de Aranoa, starring Javier Bardem, Luis Tosar and José Ángel Egido. The film depicts the degrading effects of unemployment on a group of men left jobless by the closure of the shipyards in Vigo, Galicia. It was selected as the Spanish entry for the ...
Sep 27, 2002 · Mondays in the Sun: Directed by Fernando León de Aranoa. With Javier Bardem, Luis Tosar, José Ángel Egido, Nieve de Medina. This is the story of those who live as if every day was a constant Sunday, those who spend their Mondays in the sun.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Fernando León de Aranoa
- 2002-09-27
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Aug 8, 2003 · "Mondays in the Sun" chronicles the lives of men who were shipbuilders in Spain until the yards closed, and now measure out their lives in drinking and despair. One still goes to apply for jobs, but is too old, and considers hair dye to make himself look younger. Others buy lottery tickets, hoping for good luck, and benefit from the free cheese samples at the supermarket. They all feel ...
The story of people who worked in a dockyard but are now unemployed. 2001: men without jobs, in the port city of Vigo. Six men worked in a shipyard, now shuttered. They pass the time at La Naval, a bar opened by one of them after the yard closed. They face their futures in makeshift ways: Rico has his bar and a sharp 15-year-old daughter, Reina ...
Mondays in the Sun was the official Spanish entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the 2003 Academy Awards. It won five Goya Awards in Spain including Best Film. Best Director, and Best Actor. This is a deeply ethical work that has a universal quality to its depiction of the soul-destroying capacities of unemployment.
Aug 24, 2003 · Winner of five Goya Awards (Best Film, Director and three acting awards), Mondays in the Sun repeats its point, that unemployment depletes energy and identity, but in subtle, ever engaging ways ...
Aug 8, 2003 · Mondays in the Sun, a Spanish film, focuses on the lives of half a dozen men who lost their jobs -- but not their senses of humor and the absurd -- in a labor dispute. Los Angeles Times film ...
