Shot in and around Bucharest, Romania, with effective production design by Joseph Hodges, the film achieves an evocative, if basic, blend of Old World, crumbling and gloomy, and sharp-edged high tech. By the time a contract surfaces involving Close’s grand manipulator, it’s best to kiss goodbye any hope of narrative coherence. Less convincing than the running is the Karens’ detective work, and what it uncovers, as they try to sort out the allegiances of a leering colleague (Pal Sverre Hagen) and the man ( Marwan Kenzari) who claims to be the secret lover of one of the sisters. Tommy Wirkola Talks Directing Noomi Rapace as Seven Identical Twins in 'What Happened to Monday?' (Q&A)Īs she’s shown in a number of performances, beginning with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Rapace brings a feral yet elegant athleticism to action, a quality that Wirkola knows how to showcase as his star races through the city, with its requisite dystopian rain. Wirkola, DP Jose David Montero and VFX supervisor Bryan Jones combine the performances within the frame in strikingly seamless fashion - not just for Rapace but also for Clara Read, who plays the tween version of the sisters in flashback scenes that show precisely what kind of sacrifices their ruse requires. Differentiated by hairstyle and attitude, the sisters include martini-sipping platinum blonde Saturday, plain-Jane tech whiz Friday, and rebellious Thursday. Though the material defines some of the women more clearly than others, Rapace clearly relishes the chance to dig into multiple roles. Back in their sprawling bunker of an apartment, they revert to their real personalities, sharing takeout meals of roasted rat as a break from the usual GMO fare.
Each woman goes out in the world as Karen Settman on the day of the week that coincides with her name. The seven sibs, named for the days of the week by the grandfather ( Willem Dafoe) who raised them, have survived the clampdown by sharing a public persona. Then again, “cryosleep” might just be double-speak for euthanasia. The Child Allocation Bureau, headed by a garden-variety toxic bureaucrat ( Glenn Close), enforces the one-child policy by sweeping up siblings wherever it finds them and putting them in the deep freeze of suspended animation, presumably until the planet’s climate, food and population crises have subsided.
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