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| Javier Bardem | ... | Santa | |
| Luis Tosar | ... | Jose | |
| José Ángel Egido | ... | Lino (as José Angel Egido) | |
| Nieve de Medina | ... | Ana | |
| Enrique Villén | ... | Reina | |
| Celso Bugallo | ... | Amador | |
| Joaquín Climent | ... | Rico | |
| Aida Folch | ... | Nata | |
| Serge Riaboukine | ... | Serguei | |
| Laura Domínguez | ... | Ángela | |
| Pepo Oliva | ... | Samuel | |
| Fernando Tejero | ... | Lázaro | |
| Andrés Lima | ... | Abogado | |
| Antonio Mourelos | ... | Juez | |
| César Cambeiro | ... | Fiscal (as Cesar Cambeiro) | |
| Antonio Durán 'Morris' | ... | Director Banco (as Antonio Durán Morris) | |
| Luis Zahera | ... | Administrativo Astillero (as Luis Castro) | |
| Luisa Martínez | ... | Funcionaria INEM (as Maria Luisa Martínez) | |
| Casilda García | ... | Dueña Pensión | |
| Mónica García | ... | Mónica | |
| Luisa Merelas | ... | Mujer Lino | |
| Pablo de la Fuente | ... | Hijo Lino | |
| Belén López | ... | Hija Lino | |
| Denis Gómez | ... | Empleado Trasbordador | |
| Miguel Borines | ... | Encargado Conservera | |
| Lois Soaxe | ... | Compañero Conservera (as Lois Seaxe) | |
| Isabel Cerviño | ... | Secretaria Judicial | |
| Pablo Vázquez | ... | Niño del chalet | |
| Talco | ... | Bizco | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Jesús Vázquez | ... | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
Directed by | |||
| Fernando León de Aranoa | |||
Writing credits | ||
| Fernando León de Aranoa | (screenplay) and | |
| Ignacio del Moral | (screenplay) | |
Produced by | |||
| Andrea Occhipinti | .... | co-producer | |
| Elías Querejeta | .... | producer | |
| Jaume Roures | .... | producer | |
| Jérôme Vidal | .... | co-producer (as Jerome Vidal) | |
Original Music by | |||
| Lucio Godoy | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Alfredo Mayo | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Nacho Ruiz Capillas | |||
Casting by | |||
| Luis San Narciso | |||
Production Design by | |||
| Julio Esteban | |||
Costume Design by | |||
| Maiki Marín | |||
Makeup Department | |||
| Eva Fontenla | .... | assistant makeup artist (as Eva L. Fontenla) | |
| Manolo García | .... | make-up and hair | |
| Carlos Hernández | .... | make-up and hair | |
Production Management | |||
| Gregorio Hebrero | .... | unit production manager | |
| Alexandre Isidoro | .... | post-production manager: France | |
| Primitivo Álvaro | .... | production manager (as Primitivo Alvaro) | |
Art Department | |||
| Virgilio Esteban | .... | property master | |
| Alexandra Fernández | .... | assistant decorator (as Alejandra Fernández) | |
| Miguel Fernández | .... | props | |
| Pablo González Teijeiro | .... | painter | |
| José Herrero Güénaga | .... | construction coordinator | |
| José Antonio Perozo | .... | art assistant (as Xose Antón Perozo) | |
| Luis Pombo | .... | carpenter | |
| Octavio Pérez Pimentel | .... | second assistant decorator | |
| Juan Luis Rodríguez | .... | assistant property master | |
| Jorge Santalla | .... | art assistant | |
| José Tojo 'Tojete' | .... | painter (as José Tojo López) | |
Sound Department | |||
| Polo Aledo | .... | sound | |
| Susana Benito | .... | assistant sound mixer | |
| Alfonso Conceiro | .... | sound assistant | |
| Enrique Domínguez | .... | assistant sound mixer | |
| Patrick Ghislain | .... | sound effects editor | |
| Pierre Lorrain | .... | sound | |
| Alfonso Raposo | .... | sound mixer | |
| Maite Rivera | .... | dialogue editor | |
| Pierre Tucat | .... | boom operator | |
Special Effects by | |||
| Ricardo Spencer | .... | special effects (uncredited) | |
Visual Effects by | |||
| Ricardo G. Elipe | .... | visual effects supervisor | |
| Óscar Perea Marcos | .... | visual effects operator (as Oscar Perea Marcos) | |
| Jesús de Matos Zambrano | .... | visual effects operator | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Jordi Abusada | .... | second operator | |
| Olga Carretero | .... | still photographer | |
| Juan Carrión | .... | electrician | |
| Javier Casado | .... | electrician | |
| Alberto Díaz Blanco | .... | electrician | |
| Antonio Fernández Santamaría | .... | key grip (as Antonio F. Santamaría) | |
| Daniel Fernández | .... | second assistant camera | |
| José Antonio Fernández | .... | gaffer | |
| Ricardo Llovo | .... | video assist | |
| Vicente Martín | .... | still photographer | |
| Emilio Martínez-Borso | .... | camera trainee | |
| David Melero | .... | electrician | |
| Santiago Zuazo | .... | assistant camera | |
Costume and Wardrobe Department | |||
| Carmen Casal | .... | costume assistant | |
| Graciela Rubio | .... | wardrobe | |
Editorial Department | |||
| María José Almela | .... | assistant editor | |
| Carolina Martínez Urbina | .... | positive assembler (as Carolina Martínez) | |
| María Jesús Sánchez | .... | negative cutter | |
Music Department | |||
| Bibiana Bergia | .... | musical advisor | |
| José Luis Crespo | .... | music mixer | |
| Lucía Cárdenas | .... | music licensing (as Lucía Cárdenes) | |
| Héctor García | .... | assistant music mixer | |
| Lucio Godoy | .... | musician: guitar | |
| Federico Lechner | .... | musician: piano | |
| Ara Malikian | .... | musician: viola | |
| Pablo Pimentel | .... | assistant music mixer | |
| José Antonio Romero | .... | musician: electric guitar | |
| José San Martín | .... | musician: percussion | |
| Juan San Martín | .... | musician: bass | |
Transportation Department | |||
| Sergio Cozar Gil | .... | driver: production car (as Sergio Gil) | |
| Emilio Ruiz | .... | driver: production car | |
Thanks | |||
| Sergio Aguero | .... | very special thanks (as Sergio Agüero) | |
| Yolanda Aguiar Castro | .... | thanks | |
| Gusa Alonso-Pimentel | .... | thanks (as Gusa Pimentel) | |
| Carlos Asorey | .... | very special thanks | |
| Manuel Camacho | .... | very special thanks (as Manolo Camacho) | |
| Jesús Fernández Iglesias | .... | thanks | |
| Cirenia Lamela | .... | very special thanks | |
| Ángel Luis Lara | .... | very special thanks | |
| Javier Liñán | .... | very special thanks | |
| Patricia de Muns | .... | very special thanks | |
| Guadalupe Murillo Solís | .... | thanks | |
| José María Olaizola | .... | very special thanks (as José Mari Olaizola) | |
| Cristina Palés | .... | very special thanks | |
| Rolando Pardo | .... | very special thanks | |
| Claudio Rodríguez | .... | very special thanks | |
| Lola Salvador | .... | very special thanks | |
| Roberto Santiago | .... | very special thanks | |
| Pablo Sanz | .... | very special thanks | |
| Javier Tamarit | .... | very special thanks | |
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February, 2001 says the calendar inside the wharf-side bar; Rico splashes out the drinks and his precocious 15 year-old daughter Nata (Aïda Folch) looks on, absorbing the intensity of fiery language: her father's customers are unemployed boat-yard workers, drifters over forty, approaching fifty.
Fernando León de Aranoa, basing himself on the real lay-offs which happened in the boatyards of Gijón (Asturias) ten years earlier, and indeed using footage from newsreports, reconstructed his own story and transferred the proceedings to Vigo (Galicia) in the extreme north-west of Spain. The resulting `Los Lunes al Sol' is a social document portraiting a few men `on the dole' and their sombre outlook, however not lacking in sparkling humour and witty dialogues.
The year 2002 will be remembered as the year of `Hable con Ella' (qv) and `Los Lunes al Sol', a year in which mostly men take first place on the screen, moving the ladies to one side. Heroically, considering Spanish masculine mentality, there is no macho-building exercise in force in either of these two excellent films. The two films have competed head-on at the San Sebastián film festival, as well as in the Spanish Film Academy to be chosen to represent Spain for the Oscars, and so on, and have come out more or less level. If my personal preference is Almodóvar's superb dramatical piece, this in no way deflects from `Lunes al Sol', a magnificent sociological drama which even manages to creep in to certain foibles and other typicalisations without any cheapening effect which would have been detrimental to the telling of the story.
Javier Bardem is superb and magnificently backed up by Luis Tosar and José Angel Egido, and there are no superlatives for Celso Bugallo's lesser but extremely important part as Amador. Joaquín Climent as the bar-owner Rico is absolutely correct, and the Russian Serge Riaboukine is spot on. And the ladies .? Well, definitely in secondary roles, but Nieve de Medina as the suffering wife Ana working in the sea-food canning plant gives a resounding interpretation, and Laura Domínguez as Angela is fine. But all eyes are fascinated by fifteen year old Aïda Folch as the precocious daughter, who observes all and learns from it, and applies her own methods to reach her own goals. She gets a baby-sitting job, hires `Santa' to do the job for her, so that he pockets 3,000 pesetas (about $20), she keeps 2.000 pesetas as commissions, and hops off to seek out her boyfriend. In her other film, `El Embrujo de Shanghai' (qv), alongside Fernando Tielve, directed by Fernando Trueba, we see she has that natural coquettish way which is going to take her very very far in the world of cinematography. I only hope she stays in Spain to do so, she keeps her beautiful little head well and truly planted on her shoulders, and does not suddenly disappear over the other side of the Atlantic, as so often happens to our prodigies.
You come away from this film feeling that you have barely ever seen a team pull so hard together to make the result work: the film has a significant message to transmit and it had to do so through skillfully worked characteriology driven by dialogues that shift from the retrospective to the witty, through scenes that move from outright funny to downright sad. It works: the Spanish public identify with these `real' characters and natural language replete with non-dictionary spicey terms, as these men live out their empty, frustrating life of unemployment.
Excellent work here by the young director Fernando León de Aranoa: I shall be looking forward to seeing more of his films, and no doubt I shall acquire the video of `Los Lunes al Sol' as soon as it is in the shops.