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This article is about the 1966 Yugoslav film. For Virginia Woolf's 1921 short story collection, see Monday or Tuesday.
Monday or Tuesday Directed by Vatroslav Mimica Written by Vatroslav Mimica
Fedor VidasStarring Slobodan Dimitrijević
Pavle Vuisić
Gizela Huml
Jagoda Kaloper
Srđan Mimica
Fabijan Šovagović
Rudolf Kukić
Renata Freiskorn
Olivera VučoMusic by Miljenko Prohaska Cinematography Tomislav Pinter Editing by Katja Majer Studio Jadran Film Release date(s) 1966 Running time 84 minutes Country Yugoslavia Language Serbo-Croatian Monday or Tuesday (Serbo-Croatian: Ponedjeljak ili utorak) is an acclaimed 1966 Yugoslav drama film directed by Vatroslav Mimica starring Slobodan Dimitrijević. The film's title is a famous quote from Virginia Woolf's 1919 work Modern Fiction[1] (and the title of her 1921 short story collection) in which she described her approach to writing:
"Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad impressions—trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms; and as they fall, as they shape themselves into the life of Monday or Tuesday."
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Plot
The film follows a day in the life of a divorced Zagreb journalist Marko Požgaj (played by Dimitrijević), an average modern intellectual who goes about his daily business. Mundane scenes of Požgaj's day are shown interspersed with flashbacks and fantastic imagery reflecting his inner life. These include his recollections of childhood, his feelings about the present and past, including memories of his first marriage, his current girlfriend Rajka (Jagoda Kaloper) and his father killed in World War II (Pavle Vuisić), as well as his fantasies and hopes about the future.
Reception
The film is today regarded as a logical continuation in Mimica's body of work as it replicates the stream of consciousness concept previously seen in his critically acclaimed 1964 film Prometheus of the Island.[1] The film's visual structure (based on a collage of scenes set in the past and present mixed with fantastic imagery, which are indicated by changes in picture quality and colour) and the theme of contemporary social alienation (in part resulting from the trauma of War World II) have urged critics to draw comparisons to his animated film The Inspector Is Back! (Inspektor se vratio kući, 1957) and have been called "trademarks of Mimica's entire body of work".[1]
Andrew James Horton, writing for the film journal Kinoeye wrote in 2001:
"Some of the devices now seem a little dated. Changes in image quality and colour are probably less exciting now than they were then, and the intercutting of documentary footage of the concentration camps particularly now has a somewhat heavy-handed and "obvious" feel to it. But the film still exudes the appeal of what the New Wave must have looked like when it first emerged as a trend, with its concentration on ordinary people and charmingly observed street scenes. And its this that makes the film endearing. There's none of the removed coldness that formal experimentation can bring to a film as an unfortunate by-product."[2]
The film won the Best Film and the Best Director Golden Arena awards at the 1966 Pula Film Festival, the Yugoslav national film awards festival. In addition, Tomislav Pinter won his third Best Cinematography award for his work on both Monday or Tuesday and Rondo (directed by Zvonimir Berković).[3]
References
- ^ a b c "Ponedjeljak ili utorak" (in Croatian). Filmski-Programi.hr. http://www.filmski-programi.hr/baza_film.php?id=147. Retrieved 29 May 2010.
- ^ Horton, Andrew James (29 October 2001). "A Spirit in the Air: Modernist director Vatroslav Mimica talks to Kinoeye about his career". Kinoeye.org. http://www.kinoeye.org/01/05/horton05.php. Retrieved 29 May 2010.
- ^ "13. Festival igranog filma u Puli" (in Croatian). Pula Film Festival. http://www.pulafilmfestival.hr/hr/index.php?p=detail&article=230. Retrieved 29 May 2010.
External links
- Monday or Tuesday at the Internet Movie Database
- Monday or Tuesday at AllRovi
- Monday or Tuesday at Filmski-programi.hr (Croatian)
Big Golden Arena for Best Film Yugoslav competition
(1957–1990) Priests Ćira and Spira (1957) · H-8 (1958) · Train Without a Timetable (1959) · The Ninth Circle (1960) · Ballad About a Trumpet and a Cloud & The First Fires (1961) · Kozara (1962) · Face to Face (1963) · Official Position (1964) · Prometheus of the Island & Three (1965) · Monday or Tuesday (1966) · I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967) · When I Am Pale and Dead (1968) · Downstream from the Sun (1969) · Handcuffs (1970) · Red Wheat (1971) · The Master and Margaret (1972) · The Battle of Sutjeska (1973) · The Republic of Užice (1974) · The House (1975) · Idealist (1976) · Don't Lean Out the Window (1977) · Occupation in 26 Pictures (1978) · Trophy (1979) · Petria's Wreath (1980) · The Fall of Italy (1981) · N/A (1982) · Body Scent (1983) · Balkan Spy (1984) · When Father Was Away on Business (1985) · Happy New Year '49 (1986) · Reflections (1987) · My Uncle's Legacy (1988) · The Meeting Point (1989) · Silent Gunpowder (1990)
Croatian competition
(1992–present) Story from Croatia (1992) · Countess Dora (1993) · N/A (1994) · Washed Out (1995) · How the War Started on My Island (1996) · Mondo Bobo (1997) · When the Dead Start Singing (1998) · Madonna (1999) · Marshal Tito's Spirit (2000) · Slow Surrender (2001) · Fine Dead Girls (2002) · Here (2003) · Long Dark Night (2004) · What Iva Recorded (2005) · All for Free (2006) · The Living and the Dead (2007) · No One's Son (2008) · Metastases (2009) · Just Between Us (2010) · Kotlovina (2011)
Films directed by Vatroslav Mimica The Jubilee of Mr Ikel (1955) · Suleiman the Conqueror (1961) · Prometheus of the Island (1964) · Monday or Tuesday (1966) · Kaya (1967) · An Event (1969) · The Fed One (1970) · Anno Domini 1573 (1975) · The Last Mission of Demolitions Man Cloud (1978) · The Falcon (1981)Categories:- Serbo-Croatian-language films
- Yugoslav films
- 1957 films
- 1950s drama films
- Jadran Film films
- Films directed by Vatroslav Mimica
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