Man's freedom from Mundane life

Award winning French movie '’Lundi Matin’ (Monday Morning) directed by Otar Iosseliani revolves around a man seeking freedom from his mundane life will be screened at Tuesday October 16 at 3.00 pm and Wednesday October 17 at 6.30 pm at the Alliance Francaise, Barnes Place, Colombo-7.

'Lundi Matin' (132 minutes) won the Silver Bear award at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival for the direction and it stars Jacques Bidou , Arrigo Mozzo , Anne Kravz-Tamavsky and Narda Blanchet in the stellar cast.

Vincent (Jacques Bidou, producer of Raoul Peck's Lumumba and several other films, making his acting debut) lives in a little French town, filled with eccentrics, and he follows the same routine, day in and day out. Up at five a.m. every morning, he takes the car to the bushalt to work, where he and his co-workers enjoy smoking a cigarette during the ten-second walk from the bus to the chemical plant gate.

There the dreariness continues. He gets no satisfaction from his work, and none from his home life, where his wife (Anne Kravz-Tarnavsky) nags him, his older son, Nicolas (Dato Tarielashvili), ignores him and his younger son, Gaston (Adrien Paschod), gets into mischief. All Vincent wants to do is relax and paint, but he rarely gets the time. One day, instead of putting his cigarette out and going to work, he walks away from the plant and enjoys his smoke. Vincent also meets and befriends Carlo (Arrigo Mozzo), who turns out to lead a remarkably similar life.