01.17.08
Mondays in the Sun
So, that’s not totally what Javier Bardem looks like in Mondays in the Sun, this Spanish movie that I watched months ago, but omg, you guys, he is so fucking sexy. Like, pin me against the wall sexy. Like, I would do anything you asked me to, even if it meant cleaning my bathroom or baking or something equally horrible just to be allowed to touch him sexy. (Btw, I know I’m totally late jumping on the Bardem bandwagon, but I really don’t care.)
Anyway. This is one of those really dark, super depressing movies where dudes work at a port, only actually the port got shut down and no one can get work and it completely sucks to be them (see Waterfront, On The).
Bardem is Santa (um, yeah) the (sexy) star who is really brooding and angry (supersexy) about how he can’t get work. So he hangs out with all his friends, who also can’t get work and drinks a lot. There’s this heartbreaking scene where he actually takes babysitting job from the bartender’s daughter because he is so desperate for money.
I dig this kind of movie, if I’m in the right mood. The dark yellow tints of the photography and the really touching performances are totally effective. The subplot of Santa’s friend, Jose (Luis Tosar) is also really great: he is so emasculated by the fact that his wife has a job and he doesn’t that he pushes her away until there is no salvaging their marriage. The way that his wife is shot - showing her at her smelly fish packing (I think) job and then coming home to shower and desperately, but gracefully, beg for affection is so so sad and I totally related to it.
Mondays in the Sun is not really an upper. But. Still good. (And sexy).
