But that sensible breakup remains at bay, and we keep wondering why as it grows clearer that these two people truly aren’t meant for each other. The script from Papadimitropoulos and Rob Hayes uses a series of Fridays as its structure-some joyful, some painful, but all eventful in some way to mark the passage of time as this unlikely relationship lives on, with the inevitable return to reality on a Monday lurking in the distance. But when they meet on that fateful Friday, it seems highly unlikely that they’ll say goodbye and go back to their normal lives by the following Monday. Chloe is an immigration lawyer who’s on the verge of returning to the United States after 18 months. Mickey has been DJing in the city for the past seven years, having fled New York just as his band was on the rise. The fact that they kiss intensely before they even learn each other’s names, as music thumps and bodies bump all around them, is a great indication of the volatility that’s in store (and Papadimitropoulos puts us right in the center of the action through a long and immersive tracking shot). Stan and Gough enjoy a fun flirtation in the beginning, though, as ex-pats in their mid-30s meeting cute during an Athens summer dance party.
They seem doomed from the start, and all we can do is watch and wonder why they ever bothered beyond the giddy rush of great sex. There’s not much to either of them individually beyond a few simple traits, and they barely evolve as a couple over the course of the film, which spans several months. Stan’s Mickey is an easygoing and charismatic party boy with a Peter Pan complex Gough’s Chloe is a captivating and pragmatic lawyer who’s the steadier one in the relationship (as in, she owns actual furniture). We’d feel more invested in their highs and lows, their will-they-or-won’t-they, if the characters were better defined. And maybe that’s the point, but it doesn’t justify making us suffer, too, for nearly two hours. Sebastian Stan and Denise Gough have wild, spontaneous sex all over the place-on the beach, in a truck bed, on a ferry-in the whirlwind Greek romance “Monday.” But while that sounds passionate and exciting, director and co-writer Argyris Papadimitropoulos’ film is actually a repetitive slog.Īs the couple’s once-thrilling romance quickly wanes, so does the movie.
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