The Girl From Monday retrospective: Hal Hartley

Cast:
Tatiana Abracos (dziewczyna z planety Poniedziałek), Juliana Francis (Rita), Leo Fitzpatrick (William), Bill Sage (Jack), Sabrina Lloyd (Cecile), Michael Cassidy (Ted)

This is the only science-fiction film by Hartley. Its plot is set in the near future. The main character - Jack Ball works for the Triple M (Multi Media Monopoly) corporation, which takes power in America after the Revolution and introduces a market dictatorship. All citizens are constantly controlled: in the film we can see nameless violent soldiers, who arrest people in the streets. Everybody has a tattoo on his wrist with a bar code, replacing the cash card and allowing access to even the most intimate data about people. The authorities are especially careful in controlling the subjects' sexual life, because higher sexual activity means also higher purchasing and consuming ability and these are the essential factors of human value in this anti-utopia. One day the girl from Monday appears in this future world. She arrives on the Earth from a 147X star of the Monday constellation and she has a special mission to accomplish. Jack gives her shelter in his flat: the beautiful woman has no bar code on her wrist and therefore she could be condemned as an illegal immigrant.

Anna Taszycka

It's two halves. I tought of it more like an old LP. Side one and side two.

Hal Hartley