Monday
2017 · 7m
Directed by Victor Velasco
Tones: contemplative, tender
A young girl on her bed, an artsy lover's kiss, an overwhelmed husband's arrival — today is Monday, and the week begins with the consequences of today's actions.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
The premise reads like a domestic melodrama waiting to happen, but Velasco seems content to sit in the tender space between desire and obligation without pushing it anywhere—which is either profound restraint or a missed opportunity to actually say something provocative about infidelity.
Velasco's compositional clarity—the bed as frame, the arrival as structural turning point—stakes this firmly in the lineage of Koreeda and Haneke, where a single day becomes a pressure chamber for unspoken histories and the weight of ordinary choice.
The real film lives in the gap between the lover's kiss and the husband's arrival; that transitional moment where Velasco lets the image breathe instead of cutting is where the emotional architecture of the whole piece suddenly crystallizes.
Reviews
A young girl with bright eyes looks at us on her bed as an artsy-lover kisses her and an overwhelmed husband arrives. Today is Monday, and they will start their week and the rest of their life with the consequences of today's actions.