Mondays: See You “This” Week!
Ryo Takebayashi
- 2022
- Japan
- Fantasy comedy
- 1h22mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
Preview
Colleagues in an ad agency discover they’re caught in a time loop, condemned to live the same work day forever.
Groundhog Day keeps breeding children, and after Palm Springs in 2020, we’re surprised to see how young filmmakers manage to renew such a typically repetitive theme. Ryota Takebayashi’s angle for his first film is resolutely allegorical and contemporary, as he holds before us a mirror of professional horror: hierarchical harassment, repetitive tasks, exhaustion to the point of depression. Frantic, thrilling, nightmarish, comedy has never been so cathartic.
Credits
- With : Ryô Ikeda, Wan Marui, Yûgo Mikawa, Koki Osamura, Momoi Shimada
- Screenplay : Saeri Natsuo, Ryo Takebayashi
- Photography : Tatsuyuki Kozen
- Editing : Jo Kobayashi, Ryo Takebayashi
- Music by : Takao Ogi
- Production : Daisuke Noro
