The Girl From Monday

Hal Hartley

IndieLisboa 2005 •

USA, Fiction, 2004, 84′

A fake science-fiction movie about the way we live now. A girl drops into the ocean from outer space. A bring from a distant constellation called Monday, she has assumed the human form of a beatiful young woman in order to look for her friend who arrived years before and whom she suspects is in trouble; caught perhaps in the body he has assumed. On the heels of the Great Revolution, the city-state of NYC has been liberated by Triple M, the Major Multimedia Monopoly which has brought into being the Dictatorship of the Consumer, securing for the citizens greater choice, personal autonomy and technological progress. Jack Bell is responsable for the Human Value Reform Act. Citizens are now public offerings on the stock exchange; each time they have sex their value increases depending on the current state of the market. Horrified at the dehumanizing consequences of his suggestions, Jack is the secret leader of the Counter Revolution. The beautiful junior executive he works with, Cecile, ends up taking part of Jack’s counter revolution.