Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies (2008)

Description

Director: Coco Schrijber
Writer: Coco Schrijber
Narrator (Voice-over): John Malkovich
Editing: Gys Zevenbergen
Music: Marc Lizier
Producer / Production Company: Bonanza Films (Producer: J.B. Macrander)

Duration: 85–87 minutes (sources vary between 85 minutes and 87 minutes)
Language: Dutch, French, English, and Arabic
Country: Netherlands
Year: 2008

Synopsis:
Beauty, love, work… sometimes it isn’t even worth getting out of bed. The film is a contemplative vision of boredom in contemporary human life, portrayed through a series of vignettes: a Wall Street broker, a Moroccan desert nomad, the last living female spy of World War II, a painter who has been painting Time for 42 years, and Brenda Spencer—the first school shooter in history, who at age 16 killed eleven people because “I don’t like Mondays”. John Malkovich’s deep, prophet-like voice gives voice to today’s bored human psyche. A boldly non-linear narrative from a director unlike any other in her choice of topics.

Festivals & Awards:
Netherlands Film Festival (Utrecht) — Golden Calf Award for Best Documentary (Long Documentary), 2008
Hot Docs (Canada)
Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Greece)
Moscow International Film Festival (Russia)
Munich Dok.fest (Germany)
Silverdocs / AFI–Discovery Channel Documentary Festival (USA)
DokuFest (Kosovo) — Audience Award
Leipzig DOK Festival (Germany)
Tempo Documentary Festival (Stockholm)
Dok.Point Helsinki (Finland)
ZagrebDox (Croatia)
Vilnius International Film Festival (Lithuania)
Beirut, Brisbane, Reykjavik, Boston
Cameraimage (Poland)

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