Monday Morning (2002) ( Lundi matin )

Monday Morning (2002) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Lundi matin
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Subtitles )
Hungarian ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
122 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Short Film
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2002 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Otar Iosseliani

Written By:
Otar Iosseliani

Actors:
Jacques Bidou ..... Vincent
Anne Kravz-Tarnavsky ..... La femme de Vincent
Narda Blanchet ..... La mère de Vincent
Radslav Kinski ..... Le père de Vincent
Dato Tarielachvili ..... Nicolas, l'aîné de Vincent (as Dato Tarielashvili-Iosseliani)
Adrien Pachod ..... Gaston, le cadet de Vincent
Pascal Chanal ..... Michel, le voisin
Myriam Laidouni-Denis ..... La femme de Michel
Laura-Kay Monnet ..... La fille de Michel
Nicolas Ponthus ..... Le fils de Michel
Pierre Tricaud ..... Le père de Michel
Armand Chagot ..... Le frère de Michel
Vincent Douhadji ..... Le fermier
Anne-Jacqueline Bousch ..... La bonne
Anna Lamour-Flori ..... L'amie de Nicolas

Synopsis:

Vincent (Jacques Bidou, producer of Raoul Peck's Lumumba and several other films, making his acting debut) lives in a little French town, filled with eccentrics, and he follows the same routine, day in and day out. Up at five a.m. every morning, he takes the car to the bus to work, where he and his co-workers enjoy smoking a cigarette during the ten-second walk from the bus to the chemical plant gate. There the dreariness continues. He gets no satisfaction from his work, and none from his home life, where his wife (Anne Kravz-Tarnavsky) nags him, his older son, Nicolas (Dato Tarielashvili), ignores him and his younger son, Gaston (Adrien Paschod), gets into mischief. All Vincent wants to do is relax and paint, but he rarely gets the time. One day, instead of putting his cigarette out and going to work, he walks away from the plant and enjoys his smoke. He then goes to visit his father (Radslav Kinski), who encourages him to take a trip to Venice and visit an old friend of the family. In Venice, Vincent is robbed. He meets his father's old friend, Enzo di Martino (played by the writer-director of the film, Otar Iosseliani), a vainglorious fallen nobleman who goes to great lengths to impress his guest. Vincent also meets and befriends Carlo (Arrigo Mozzo), who turns out to lead a remarkably similar life. Iosseliani won the Silver Bear at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival for his direction of Monday Morning; the film was also shown at the 2002 New York Film Festival.

A story told quietly of Vincent a welder at a large and seemingly toxic plant along the Rhône, living in a village with his sons, wife, and mother, saying little to each other. Vincent paints; some of what he sees is artifice. The sounds are of trains, boats, factory horns, and people singing. Men watch women, sometimes priests join in the looking, sometimes not. A crocodile appears in a garden. With money his father gives him, Vincent takes a journey to Venice. He sees the city from a roof top, the view is a gift from a friend. One of his sons hang-glides with a girl friend. Vincent comes home to go back to work. What is it to taste wine and to be alive?

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