What Happened to Monday?
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | What Happened to Monday? |
| Original title | What Happened to Monday |
| Country of production | France , USA , Belgium , Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 124 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tommy Wirkola |
| script |
Max Botkin , Kerry Williamson |
| production |
Raffaella De Laurentiis , Fabrice Gianfermi , Philippe Rousselet |
| music | Christian Wibe |
| camera | José David Montero |
| cut | Martin Stoltz |
| occupation | |
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What Happened to Monday? (TV reference What happened on Monday? ) Is a science fiction thriller by Tommy Wirkola , which premiered on August 6, 2017 as part of the Locarno International Film Festival 2017 and was released in German cinemas on October 12, 2017.
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In 2043, due to overpopulation in the European Federation, there will be a strict one-child policy , which the Child Allocation Bureau (CAB) will be responsible for monitoring. In the case of multiple births , the surplus children should be put into cryosleep . All citizens wear an electronic armband for control.
In this world, Karen Settman gives birth to identical sevenlings. Since the mother dies in childbirth and no father can be found, the grandfather Terrence is responsible for the sevenlings. He names them Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and hides them in an apartment. Only when the girls go to school are they allowed out, but each only on the day of the week that corresponds to their first name. They share an identity with their mother's name and always have to agree to keep the secret. They also look the same when they leave the apartment. This even means that Terrence - to protect them - has to chop off one finger at a time after Thursday went out once without permission and parted her finger in the process.
In 2073, the sevenlings continue to live with the shared identity of Karen Settman, although in reality they have different personalities. Karen Settman works for a bank. On the way back from work, Sunday sees a child being abducted from the CAB, despite protests from bystanders. The next day, Monday flirts with CAB agent Adrian Knowles at a checkpoint. At the bank she gets into trouble with her colleague Jerry, who is competing with her for a promotion and threatening her. In the evening she does not come back and thus worries her sisters.
Tuesday takes on the role of Karen Settman the following day. She pretends to be ignorant and forgetful in order to get information. While the other sisters are connected to her on screen, she learns that Monday got the promotion and was in a bar with Jerry the night before. Before she can investigate further, however, she is arrested by the CAB. At the agency's headquarters, she meets their boss, Nicolette Cayman, who knows about the sevenlings and indicates that Monday had already offered money to be released. At the same time, CAB agents break into the sisters' apartment. When they want to get the women out of hiding, Thursday attacks them from an ambush. The sisters kill the CAB people, but Sunday dies too. While Cayman is talking to her main agent Joe about how to proceed, the sisters find a severed eye that the CAB agents used to outsmart the retina scanner in the apartment; it belongs to Tuesday.
Wednesday goes to Jerry the next day without the usual Karen outfit but with a hidden camera. When she threatens him with a gun, she learns of a contract Monday has signed with Cayman. She paid millions to the campaigning CAB boss to get the promotion. Then a CAB agent shoots Jerry. Wednesday kills one of the following agents and cuts off his finger in order to take out the other men with his rifle. Then she escapes following the instructions of the sisters, who are interrupted when Adrian shows up at her apartment door. Saturday lets him in and he physically approaches her. Thursday persuades Saturday to go out with Adrian, and Friday tells her to connect the two bracelets to get access to the CAB. When Thursday and Friday turn back to the screen, they see Wednesday being shot by CAB agent Joe and falling from a roof.
Saturday gets involved in sex with Adrian and uses the proximity to connect the bracelets. Friday gets access to the surveillance cameras at the CAB and believes he can see Monday in a cell. Saturday learns that Adrian has been with Monday for several months. When she announced this on Thursday and Friday, she was shot by the CAB. Another CAB team led by Joe throws smoke grenades into the sisters' apartment. Thursday and Friday first flee via an outside staircase, but then Friday sacrifices her life in an explosion because she thinks she cannot survive without the sisters anyway.
Adrian learns of the incident and drives to the sisters' apartment. When Thursday attacks him, he learns the truth about the sevenfold Karen and confesses his love for Monday. Thursday lets him take him to the CAB in a body bag . There she sees a child not being frozen for cryosleep, but being cremated. Together with Adrian, she overpowers the staff and runs to the prison cell where she suspected Monday to be. But there she finds Tuesday.
On the sidelines of a fundraising gala for Cayman's election campaign, Monday and Thursday, both of whom are dressed as Karen, face a confrontation in a toilet room. Monday talks about how she lost control through her relationship with Adrian, and Thursday recalls the story with the cut finger. In a duel, Thursday shoots Monday's pistol before she leaves the room. Tuesday and Adrian bring the pictures Thursday took of the deadly cryosleep onto a screen behind Cayman's lectern, thereby revealing the truth. Monday walks in and Joe shoots her before Adrian shoots Joe again. The dying Monday reveals that she is pregnant and asks Thursday to take care of the child.
The death penalty is demanded for Cayman and the one-child policy is ended. Tuesday and Thursday, now called Terry and Karen, watch with Adrian how his and Mondays twins grow up in an artificial uterus.
production
The screenwriter Max Botkin worked out the basic idea of the film back in 2001.
Swedish actress Noomi Rapace took on the roles of the Settman Sevenlings in the film. Willem Dafoe plays their grandfather Terrence Settman. Glenn Close took on the role of Child Allocation Director Nicolette Cayman.
The shooting took place in 2015 in Romania, for example in Bucharest, where the shooting took place in the city center, in Lipscani, at the Italian Church, in front of the National Library, in the National Theater and in the Castel Film Studios, whose film production company was involved in the shooting. Further photos were taken in the old town of the port city of Constanța on the Black Sea .
The film premiered on August 6, 2017 as part of the Locarno International Film Festival 2017 . The film premiered on Netflix in the US and UK on August 18 . The film was released in German cinemas on October 12, 2017. On August 23, 2020, the film will be included in the Netflix program there.
reception
Age rating
In Germany the film is rated as FSK 16 . The reason for the release states: “The initially rather calmly staged film contains some massive scenes of violence, especially in the second half. However, these scenes are not sensationally staged. Young people aged 16 and over are able to understand the socially critical aspects of the film and to classify the scenes of violence as typical elements of a genre story. "
Reviews
The film received mixed reviews. Rotten Tomatoes scored 20 positive and 15 negative reviews. Metacritic counted 3 positive, 8 mixed and 1 negative publications. On the Internet Movie Database page, the weighted average score of 6.9 out of 10 was determined from 98,227 users.
Bernd Haasis from the Stuttgarter Nachrichten says that Tommy Wirkola does not want to fathom his dystopian Orwell scenario in depth, but rather uses it as an interesting stage for bang effects: “Eyes are cut out, blood fountains shoot after executions with headshots, not on duty a story, but as a spectacular show of violence for its own sake. "
The Huffington Post says about the work of cinematographer José David Montero that it is thanks to him that the gloomy and rainy setting of the dirty future distracts from the limited budget and thus does not even notice that it is a B-movie .
Los Angeles Times' Noel Murray says the film is not as provocative as it tries to be and is carried by Noomi Rapace in her many roles.
About the successful bank clerk Karen Settman, who pretends to be the Settman sevenlings, Tim Slagman from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung says that this is a construct that is put on in front of the door and then put down behind it, where seven very different women after Death of grandfather to shape everyday life exclusively with each other: “Noomi Rapace, an expert in the representation of figures who find new strength through pain, gives each of them a specific attitude, what is easy to slip away from the computer nerds Friday, that Casual is part of Saturday, the straightforwardness to Monday, the slightly aggressive defiance marks Thursday. ”About Glenn Close in the role of Nicolette Cayman, Slagman says that in addition to a Thatcher-like aloofness , she also gives her character a good dose of pragmatism:“ She wants but only save the world, from and for people. "
From the German film and media rating , What Happened to Monday? provided with the predicate valuable . In the press release it says: “The jury rates the relevance of the topic and the virtuosity of the acting in this film as gratifying and unusual in a generic context. The form of the violence-based action dramaturgy is justified in order to make the seriousness of the topic excitingly accessible to the largest possible audience. The jury therefore awards the rating valuable, bearing in mind the marginal dramaturgical weaknesses and due to the clear strengths. "
Awards
Locarno International Film Festival 2017
- Nomination for the Variety Piazza Grande Award ( Tommy Wirkola )
Web links
- What Happened to Monday? in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- What Happened to Monday? in the German dubbing index
- What Happened to Monday? - Official German film site
- What Happened to Monday? - Official trailer from Netflix on Youtube (video)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for What Happened to Monday? Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 170821 / K).
- ↑ a b Tim Slagman: What Happened to Monday ?: Seven in no way In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 12, 2017.
- ↑ http://adevarul.ro/entertainment/celebritati/actritele-glenn-close-noomi-rapace-ajuns-romania-filmarile-unui-thriller-sf-1_55c44fa7f5eaafab2c543121/index.html
- ↑ http://www.filmneweurope.com/news/romania-news/item/111180-glenn-close-willem-dafoe-and-noomi-rapace-shoot-in-romania
- ↑ https://www.romania-insider.com/sci-fi-thriller-starring-noomi-rapace-and-glenn-close-to-be-shot-in-romania/
- ↑ http://www.mediafax.ro/cultura-media/circa-300-de-actori-inclusiv-noomi-rapace-in-centrul-capitalei-pentru-filmul-what-happened-to-monday-foto-14853066
- ↑ Start dates Germany In: insidekino.com. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
- ↑ Reasons for the release of What Happened to Monday? In: Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry. Retrieved October 12, 2017.
- ↑ What Happened to Monday? on rottentomatoes.com , accessed February 29, 2020
- ↑ What Happened to Monday? on metacritic.com , accessed February 29, 2020
- ↑ What Happened to Monday? on imdb.com , accessed August 8, 2020
- ↑ Bernd Haasis: Kinokritik: What Happened to Monday ?: How sevenlings have to fight for their survival In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten, October 11, 2017.
- ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.de/2017/10/11/what-happened-to-monday-im-kino_n_18235830.html
- ↑ http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-mini-what-happened-to-monday-review-20170817-story.html
- ↑ What Happened to Monday? In: fbw-filmbeval.com . German film and media rating. Retrieved November 25, 2017.