friday's coffee breaks.

when you plan (it's a need i'd say) on watcing a romantic comedy, i bet you can predict what's coming. you recognize both the boy and the girl, you laugh at times 'cause it's funney, get frustraited about 20 miutes before the movie ends, because for some reason he didn't tell her something, or because she kissed a guy on the cheecks and he watched her from across the street ..or god knows what! and at the end, you just indulge in an euphoric sensation following a grand, happy ending.

.. No? well i think i was close.

watching "los lunes al sol" i couldn't really find a pattern. the whole movie follows the lives of four unemplyed, or rather four laid off workers. their disappointments in life, ther daily meetings in their friend's small bar,

at times i thought it was increadibly boaring, slow paced. but i was startled by the amount of reality, the characters were ferociously genuine, people can always find something to relate to in this film.

i've never heard of this movie, (have you?) let alone its title "mondays in the sun" their endless weekend. working, there's always the hope of something better. but when that is lost, these men lost their only way of delying everything. fears of abandon, death, lost dreams all came up.

i have to admit that, one of the reasons i watched this film was the always delightful javer bardem. if you needed another reason, then it's good cinema.