Monday
Original title: マンデイ
Year: 2000
Director: Sabu
Country of origin: Japan
A grand mix of strong storytelling, refreshing comedy, perfect timing, upbeat music and a touch of the absurd. The film consists of only 8 or 9 scenes in total, each of them somehow locked in their own little universe, tied together by the memories of the protagonist Takagi, who wakes up in an unfamiliar hotel room. Half asleep and still startled by his surroundings he searches his pockets for clues. He finds a small packet that slowly refreshes his memory and little by little we wtiness Takagi trying to paste together his journey of how he got to the hotel room, a journey with increasingly absurd consequences. Winner of the Don Quixote special prize at the Berlin International Film Festival and a FIPRESCI award “For its austere, dark wit and keen eye for human foibles”.
Source: adapted from Onderhond.
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