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Tommy Wirkola moves on from Nazi zombies (he did both of the “ Dead Snow ” movies) to identical sisters in the Netflix original film “What Happened to Monday,” a showcase for Noomi Rapace ’s range that will suffer in comparison to the similar “Orphan Black,” in which the amazing Tatiana Maslany plays identical clones. The Emmy-nominated actress gives a master class with that show, offering each of her characters their own identity, personality, flaws and strengths. Rapace doesn’t have nearly the same material to work with but she does the best she can with this sci-fi curiosity, a movie that starts with a relatively clever concept but then doesn’t build enough on its structure. On a narrative level, it’s the kind of script that feels like it never got past the concept stage, almost defiantly refusing to build on its central premise with a world that seems three-dimensional or characters who feel like more than devices. Wirkola stages a few excellent set pieces and Rapace is fantastic, but the general lack of entertainment value has to be considered disappointing given the potential of the entire piece.

In a future not that dissimilar from the one imagined in “ Children of Men ,” human beings have exhausted our planet’s resources. It’s resulted in a shocking but practical government decree: families can only have one child. If a family has more than one child, the extra child will be taken by the government and cryogenically frozen until a time when we have colonized another planet or found a way to create more natural resources. The woman in charge of this program, Nicolette Cayman ( Glenn Close ), is the kind of ruthless leader who promises a better future while stripping families of their offspring.

When Terrence Settman ( Willem Dafoe ) has septuplet grandchildren, their mother dying in childbirth, he knows he’s in serious trouble, but he crafts a masterful scam to keep his granddaughters alive. They will essentially take turns being Karen Settman, who eventually becomes a powerful businesswoman, but is really seven sisters working a very elaborate “Parent Trap.” Named after days of the week, Monday, Tuesday, etc. must inform the entire sisterhood every night about every detail that happened during the day. And in one of the film’s more ingeniously grotesque twists of fate, they must all look exactly the same. Think about the potential ramifications. If one sister loses a finger …

And then Monday doesn’t come home one night. The other six girls, who have distinct enough personalities to allow Rapace to have a little fun—one is more of a bookworm than her sisters, one is more physically outgoing, etc.—have to figure out what happened to Monday. It leads them into the clutches of the Child Allocation Board, and the truth about Nicollete Cayman’s vision for the future.

It’s certainly not a bad idea for a sci-fi film, or an extended episode of “Black Mirror,” but screenwriters Max Botkin and Kerry Williamson needed another pass to take it beyond a very loose collection of action scenes. Most surprisingly given how “ Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead ” played with expectations and got only increasingly more gonzo, “What Happened to Monday” is kind of boring when it comes to style. There’s an awesome fight scene early on when the women are first tracked down by their enemies that features stunt work similar to Wirkola’s other films, and allows Rapace to show off the physical abilities as an action star she’s displayed before. But there’s a shocking amount of sitting around and talking in this movie about seven sisters named after days of the week. It’s almost as if the original script was more intellectual sci-fi, Wirkola pulled it as much as he could toward action, and it got stuck somewhere in the middle.

“What Happened to Monday” is just not as fun as you’d think it would be given the ridiculousness of its concept, the talent of its star, and even that one action scene. Part of the problem is the lack of a distinct villain—Close hams it up in a few scenes but she’s not memorable enough or given enough time—which means Rapace has to flee a series of Men in Black with Guns, which just gets tiresome after a while. It’s one of those Netflix films or shows that might get the job done on a boring Friday night, but that you won’t remember by Monday. We’re starting to see those with shocking regularity. Let’s hope the pattern changes soon.  

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“What Happened to Monday” is as much a title as it is a question about itself. Directed by Tommy Wirkola (“Dead Snow,” “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters”), the Netflix original production lands somewhere in a creative middle ground. Part fugitives-on-the-run thriller, part post-apocalyptic familial drama, Wirkola’s latest is a perplexing amalgamation. Its identity is the absence of one.

Set in a not too distant future where families are limited to one child, due to overpopulation, the story opens on the Settman household. After the passing of their father, Terence Settman (Willem Dafoe), a family of seven sisters (all played by Noomi Rapace, channeling Tatiana Maslany’s one-woman ensemble on “Orphan Black”) must keep the family name alive. Of course, due to the law — enforced by politician Nicolette Cayman (Glenn Close) — no one can know that seven Settmans reside in one home.

For convenience, the sisters are named by the days of the week: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and so on. These names are also indicators. Each sister is allowed to leave the home on “her” day. Nothing more, nothing less. In turn, the Settmans have constructed a prison of their own. To all simultaneously wander outside would be to risk their lives. To stay inside much longer would be to risk their sanity.

Written by Max Botkin and Kerry Williamson (“Alex Cross”), “What Happened to Monday” teases at the idea of being this contained family affair: seven women trapped in their home, hiding from the law. Rapace has the manic energy and emotional dexterity to pull off these parts. She’s seven characters at once, and none of them feel the same. The initial in-fighting between the sisters is what pulls the audience in. Wirkola focuses on tight close-ups to give a sense of Rapace’s range. The contours are varied and striking.

Then, “What Happened to Monday” shape-shifts into a low-rent “Children of Men” meets “Blade Runner.” Cayman and the government catch onto the Settmans’ scheme. The sisters represent a institutional failing. Cayman is embarrassed and demands that her underlings “take care” of the situation. Quietly.

Once the national government goes on a womanhunt for the surviving sisters, all the dramatic tension within Wirkola’s film is drained. This narrative pivot is the conventional and predictable move to make, as the script demands Rapace transform into an action star. As the government closes in, the sisters disperse. Survival is their objective.

Theoretically, this should up the ante of “What Happened to Monday,” and yet it’s a deflating direction. Watching the sisters be hunted and shot at grows tiresome quickly. The action sequences are sloppily staged, the editing makes the combat nearly indecipherable, and human lives are dispatched with no regard. There’s no weight to the deaths. Sisters come and go, much like our interest in them.

There’s some attempt at unpacking the moral complexities of Cayman’s job. She’s the ringleader behind the “one child per family” ethos. According to the statistics and science, this is what had to be done. Overpopulation was running rampant, resources more and more scarce. Limiting procreation didn’t exactly go over well with people. Cayman took on that responsibility and burden.

The script, once again, hints on trying to her understand her perspective. How someone can so quickly become the face of something they intellectually believe in, but ethically can’t reconcile. Close is about as good of an actress for this role as we have today, but even she can’t salvage a script that refuses to focus. Any time we inch closer towards emotion, it runs away.

Wirkola is more comfortable engaging with gunfire than people. This has always been true; he’s built a fine reputation for himself as a B-movie pop artist. A glance at his filmography reveals a director whose convinced enough people that he’s competent to lead a project with a sizable budget. He appears to be a persuasive pitcher.

But there’s nothing in “What Happened to Monday” that feels especially necessary right now. It retreads familiar terrain in a way that will make you want to rewatch the movies that inspired it. That’s not the worst feeling to elicit.

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What Happened To Monday (2017) : Movie Plot Ending Explained

Tommy Wirkola brings us What Happened To Monday which has Noomi Rapace starring in seven roles. The seven of them are sisters, identical septuplets. What Happened To Monday (or Seven Sisters) is a Science Fiction film set in a dystopian future where people are forced to have just one child per family because of limited resources. While much of the film is not complicated, the characters do get a little muddled. Do give it a watch. Here’s the plot and ending of the film What Happened To Monday explained, spoilers ahead.

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Here are links to the key aspects of the movie:

  • – Plot Explained
  • – One Child Only
  • – Nicolette’s Scheme
  • – Terrence Settman
  • – Losing The Finger
  • – Monday’s Story
  • – Pregnancy
  • – Who is Jerry?
  • – Tuesday Abducted
  • – Sunday Dies
  • – Wednesday on the run
  • – Adrian and Saturday
  • – Wednesday Dies
  • – Saturday Dies
  • – Friday Dies
  • – What Happened To Monday: Recap
  • – Adrian helps Thursday
  • – Thursday sees the truth
  • – Ending Explained
  • – Monday Dies
  • – The Truth Is Revealed
  • – Victory, now the world can end!

What Happened To Monday: Plot Explained

One child only.

As always, let’s do this linearly. In the not-so-distant future, the population of the Earth has multiplied many folds. There is a massive shortage of resources of all kinds. The world opts for genetically modified crops which get fast-tracked around the globe. But this leads to a staggering spike in multiple births across the world. The solution is now feeding the problem. No one knows what to do.

Political activist and renowned conservation biologist Dr. Nicolette Cayman has prompted the Federation to institute a “one child per family” policy. All citizens are required to wear a Bureau-issued identity bracelet. All siblings, born thereafter, are remanded to Bureau-enforced cryosleep.

What Happened To Monday: Nicolette’s Scheme

The picture Nicolette paints is that these children who are put into cryosleep will be woken up when the crisis the world is going through is handled. That these children will awaken in a better world. The present world will deal with their shortage issues by means of their reduced population. The picture that Nicolette paints is a lie. The sibling children are not put into cryosleep. They are put to sleep and then burnt to ashes. There is no preservation of children. They are simply killed off. The way she sees it is that there is no room for more people on the planet. All “additional” children need to be removed. Putting them into cryosleep will need power and more resources to keep them all alive. So they are all killed off. Obviously, no one knows this but Nicolette and a few people working closely with her.

Terrence Settman

Terrence Settman (Willem Dafoe) is one such person whose daughter Karen Settman has Septuplets, thanks to the genetically modified food. Karen dies. Terrence doesn’t announce the 7 siblings to the authorities. He names them each by one day of the week. He decides that all 7 of them will live in secrecy in a place that has hidden areas (which he builds). He trains them all to take on the identity of Karen Settman. Each of them gets one day of the week to go out and be Karen. They grow up sharing the identity of Karen. When each of them comes back home, they explain to the others how their day was. This step is important as it allows the next girl to go out and continue being Karen.

Losing The Finger

One day when they are young, Thursday decides to sneak out and skate. She ends up falling pretty bad and gets her index finger cut off. Since all of the girls need to look the same, Terrence cuts the index fingers off all the other girls starting from Monday.

Time passes, they grow up. Terrence passes away. The girls have their own identity but are, on each of their days of the week, living the life of a Karen Settman. Karen has a big opportunity for a promotion coming up. These are the seven girls.

Monday to Sunday

Monday’s Story

Over time, Monday has become quite content with being Karen in the external world as well as inside home. The others are very different and force themselves to live as Karen on their day out. Monday has also has met and fallen in love with Adrian Knowles, a security guard, who works for the Bureau. She doesn’t tell the others about her relationship and keeps it a secret. We are shown a moment when Adrian flirts with Monday at a check post.

What Happened To Monday: Pregnancy

Monday becomes pregnant with Adrian’s children. Unfortunately, twins. Which means one of her children will be taken away. Also, her pregnancy will mean that their cover as Karen will be blown. For the sake of her children, she makes a deal with Nicolette. She secretly compromises the knowledge and location of her six sisters in return for her to be free and live her life normally as Karen. Monday siphons millions of the bank’s Euros into Nicolette’s campaign account. Nicolette has been keeping the whole one child thing on a tight leash. People finding out about seven kids making it all these years will ruin things for her. So she agrees to let Monday live free as Karen once the remaining sisters are sleeping with the fishes.

Who is Jerry?

Jerry is a guy in the office who is also eyeing for the promotion. Jerry doesn’t know anything about Karen’s identity as one of seven people. All he knows is that Karen has a contract with Nicolette. He doesn’t know any other detail. He uses that to try and blackmail Monday to get the promotion. Jerry has nothing on the sisters. He’s just an idiot in the middle of chaos and is bound to die because of his ignorance.

Tuesday Abducted

On the day of the promotion, Monday doesn’t return back home. As a result, the rest of the sisters freak out and assume something happened to Monday. Next day, Tuesday heads out to work and tries to act normal. She finds out that Monday has had a fight with Jerry. The sisters think that Jerry is the reason they have been exposed. Tuesday is taken in by the authority. They don’t kill her. They keep her alive. They pluck her eye out though. They use the eye to go get the rest of the siblings.

Sunday Dies

A team is sent to the house. They locate them but the sisters are able to overpower Nicolette’s squad. But Sunday gets shot, she dies. They also notice an eyeball that the squad has with them, it’s Tuesday’s. They assume she’s dead too. The next day Wednesday heads out to find out more. She doesn’t go out as Karen, she goes out dressed as herself. She goes to Jerry’s place to confront him. He tells her about the contract and as expected, he gets sniped. Headshot by Nicolette’s men who are following Wednesday.

Wednesday on the run

Wednesday makes a run for it as they come to get her. The sisters advise Wednesday to jump out the window because there is a dumpster that will soften her landing. And so she jumps off 3 floors … into an empty, metallic dumpster. And survives. Survives enough to continue running at full speed. The other siblings give a sheepish grin. Apparently, gravity and height are best ignored in case of goof-ups like these.

Adrian and Saturday

Just then, Adrian shows up at their door. He’s there to meet Monday. Saturday goes to open the door while the rest hide. Adrian flirts with Saturday (thinking she’s Monday). She asks for a time-out and goes in to meet with her sisters. They are confused as to who this dude and which one amongst them has been seeing him. Friday gives Saturday a bracelet that can pair with Adrian’s when they are at his place. This way they can get access to the Bureau’s servers. Saturday leaves home with Adrian to his place.

Wednesday Dies

The remaining sisters (Thursday and Friday) guide Wednesday to a roof to make a fantastic leaping jump… only to be shot in mid-air in the chest. She’s then shot in the head and falls to her death (metallic dumpster or not). Wednesday is dead.

Saturday Dies

Saturday manages to pair her device with Adrian’s. Friday gains access to the Bureau’s network. She finds out more about the million dollar transaction from Karen to Nicolette. They go through surveillance footage to find Tuesday in a cell. But they think it is Monday who is held hostage. Saturday also finds out from the conversation that Adrian has been seeing Monday. Adrian leaves for work. Soon after, Nicolette’s men come in and kill Saturday.

Friday Dies

Thursday and Friday get attacked. Friday syncs all their data to Thursday’s device. After this, she blows up their apartment killing the assailants and herself. Adrian gets to the sister’s house as he hears activity happening there on his radio. He goes up to find a dead Friday being taken out. He thinks it is Monday. He gets back to his car in disbelief.

What Happened To Monday: Recap

  • So Monday is alive and well.
  • Tuesday is alive and captive without an eye.
  • Wednesday is dead.
  • Thursday is alive and on the loose.
  • Friday is dead.
  • Saturday dead.
  • Sunday is dead.

Adrian helps Thursday

Thursday assaults Adrian asking why he sold them out. Soon she realizes that Adrian is actually in love with Monday and he knows nothing about them being siblings. Thursday explains to Adrian that Monday is still alive but captive. He helps Thursday sneak into the Bureau.

Thursday sees the truth

Inside the Bureau, Thursday witnesses a young girl being burnt to ash under the pretext of putting her into cryosleep. She secretly records it on her hand device.

She locates Tuesday. She looks at her missing eye and realizes that it’s not Monday. Thursday takes Tuesday’s wig and works herself to look like Karen. In the meanwhile, Monday is signing her deal with Nicolette. Tuesday takes the recording and heads to the server room with the help of Adrian.

What Happened To Monday: Ending Explained

Monday dies.

Monday confronts Thursday. Thursday (and the audience) finally realizes that it was Monday who sold them out. Monday says she fell in love with Adrian and everything changed. Monday tells her that she was the first born and has the right to be Karen all by herself. She has worked hardest to be Karen. They two of them begin to fight. Thursday shoots Monday.

The Truth Is Revealed

Meanwhile, Adrian and Tuesday are able to get to the server and play the video of the girl being burnt to ashes. Nicolette is giving her speech. The video comes on and everyone now knows that there are no children in cryosleep. Monday comes back wounded with a gun. She gets shot by an agent. Nicolette is devastated. She leaves. Monday is dying and finally announces that she’s pregnant. She dies. Somehow, in the middle of all that chaos, Monday’s children are saved and taken in to an artificial womb.

Victory, now the world can end!

Nicolette is arrested. The one-child policy is removed. Captive children are released. Is it a happy ending for the humans? Hell no. There are now too many humans on the planet. Lack of food and resources will lead to their doom. Nicolette was technically saving the human race but she was doing it through lies and deceit.

Tuesday renames herself Terry. Thursday takes on the name Karen. Monday’s twins are safely held in an artificial incubation unit. They will eventually be born into the world of dying humans. What Happened To Monday ends with a strange sense of victory over evil. However, the reality is … humans have doomed themselves.

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If you've never seen the excellent sci-fi series  Orphan Black , or would just like to see a big-screen version of the Clone Club, then  Seven Sisters might be just right for you. Granted, the feature film isn't connected in any way to the TV series, and instead of  Tatiana Maslany it stars  Noomi Rapace , but the plots of each sound very familiar. Rapace will play the title roles, all twin sisters named after days of the week, which goes a long way toward explaining the alternate title,  What Happened to Monday?

As the first trailer for the film reveals, the world of  Seven Sisters is one in which a government organization has legislated a one-child policy due to overpopulation. So you can imagine what kind of negative attention a set of septuplets would bring. The family's solution is a clever if far-fetched one, but ultimately puts the sisters square in the crosshairs of government enforcers. It'll be interesting to see how Rapace's performance sets her sisters apart, just as it will be a bit of a change of pace for director  Tommy Wirkola , who's become known for fantasy/horror films.

Also starring  Glenn Close ,  Willem Dafoe , Robert Wagner and Christian Rubeck ,  Seven Sisters opens august 23rd in France; Netflix has yet to set a release date for its U.S. debut.

Check out the first trailer for  Seven Sisters below (via Dark Horizons ):

Here's the official (translated) synopsis for  Seven Sisters :

2073. The Earth is overpopulated. The government decided to introduce a one-child policy, applied by the Birth Control Board, under the aegis of Nicolette Cayman (Glenn Close). Confronted with the birth of seven twins, Terrence Settman (Willem Dafoe) decides to keep the existence of his 7 granddaughters secret. Confined to their apartment, each day they will have to share a unique identity outside, simulating the existence of one person: Karen Settman (Noomi Rapace).   Though the secret remains intact for years, everything collapses on the day that Monday mysteriously disappears ...

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Noomi Rapace plays Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in  Seven Sisters . In the future, siblings are outlawed, but Willem Dafoe  decides to stick it to the system and keep his granddaughters – seven twins – a secret. They don't stay a secret forever in the Netflix movie, though.

Below, watch the Seven Sisters trailer.

The sisters all explore the outside world under the name of Karen Settman. What Settman does on a day-to-day basis is a little unclear in the international trailer, but maybe she has some connection to the head of the Birth Control Board, Nicolette Cayman ( Glenn Close ). After Monday spends some time out in the world one day, she doesn't return home. What happened to her is a mystery, but it leads to the other six siblings having to fight for their lives in an overpopulated world.

Seven Sisters  is the new film from  Tommy Wrikola , the director of  Dead Snow  and a movie not without its charm,  Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters .  Kerry Williamson and Max Botkin  penned the original sci-fi thriller, which co-stars  Robert Wagner .

Seven Sisters  opens in some foreign territories this summer, but Netflix hasn't announced a release date yet. The movie was originally called What Happened to Monday? , which is a pretty cool title that maybe should've stayed.  Seven Sisters  is very self-explanatory, but the old title is the more memorable of the two. Definitely less generic.

Always a draw with these sort of movies is watching a talented actor give more than a single performance. Rapace is probably more than up for the challenge of playing seven  distinct characters. Since her breakout performance in  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , the movies she's starred in have varied in quality, but she's shined in more performance-driven movies, like  The Drop . After watching the  Seven Sisters  trailer, I'm most interested in the work she does in the film.

2073. The Earth is overpopulated. The government decided to introduce a one-child policy, applied by the Birth Control Board, under the aegis of Nicolette Cayman (Glenn Close). Confronted with the birth of seven twins, Terrence Settman (Willem Dafoe) decides to keep the existence of his 7 granddaughters secret. Confined to their apartment, each day they will have to share a unique identity outside, simulating the existence of one person: Karen Settman (Noomi Rapace).

Though the secret remains intact for years, everything collapses on the day that Monday mysteriously disappears ...

Correction: The original version of this article did not credit screenwriter Max Botkin. We apologize for the error.

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If science fiction is meant to hold up a mirror to societal fears, it would be difficult to find a more pressing one than overpopulation and limited environmental resources. Set in a world where every family is allowed only one child, “Seven Sisters” stars Willem Dafoe as a grandfather who must hide the existence of his septuplet grandchildren, each played by Noomi Rapace . Rapace made a splash in the original Swedish version of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” and she dives back into the thriller in “Seven Sisters.”

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Previously titled “What Happened to Monday,” each septuplet is named after the day of the week that she is allowed to go outside. Out in the world, they all assume the same identity of Karen Settman. When Monday goes missing on her day, the siblings must go in search of their sister and risk exposure. The trailer is full of dramatic music, Rapace donning various fabulous wigs, and a very sinister Glenn Close. From Norwegian horror director Tommy Wirkola, “Seven Sisters” has all the makings of a juicy sci-fi thriller.

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“Seven Sisters” premieres in France this August, and will come to Netflix later this year. Check it out:

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  • "So rife with plot holes it feels macraméed rather than written (...) Not only does it not realize how dumb it is, there’s a real sense that 'it thinks it’s smart'."  Jessica Kiang : Variety
  • "[It] starts off promisingly (...) [Wirkola] soon tosses aside any topical musings — or musings of any kind — in favor of relentless action, brutal violence and iffy melodrama"  Sheri Linden : The Hollywood Reporter
  • "[Rapace] manages to turn a derivative sci-fi movie into something slightly more exciting (...) She can’t save the movie from mediocrity"  Eric Kohn : IndieWire
  • "Muddled (...) It gets a lot of juice from Rapace’s multifaceted performance (...) At over two hours, 'What Happened to Monday' can be exhausting"  Noel Murray : Los Angeles Times
  • "The film displays neither the craft nor the sense of fun to make up for its shallow conception and murky plotting (...) [It provides] nothing but easy moral outs and dull bromides (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"  Keith Watson : Slant
  • "The film meanders too much (...) One of those movies that you used to rent on a lark from Blockbuster. With a movie like that, surprising not-badness is better than expected goodness"  Darren Franich : Entertainment Weekly
  • "'What Happened To Monday?' has its fair share of cheesy dialogue, hard-to-swallow situations and cardboard characters (...) It may have its failings but it is never less than entertaining."  Allan Hunter : Screendaily

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Noomi Rapace is going full “Orphan Black” in the sci-fi thriller Seven Sisters , also releasing under the title  What Happened to Monday?  In it, Rapace plays seven twin sisters, who are named after the days of the week. Monday goes missing. These French posters count out the several characters who will be featured in  Dead Snow  and  Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters  director  Tommy Wirkola ‘s latest.

“ Set in a world where families are allowed only one child due to overpopulation, a resourceful set of seven identical sisters must avoid governmental execution and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own. ”

Willem Dafoe  ( John Wick, Antichrist ) and  Glenn Close  also star in the film, with Marwan Kenzari ( Accused, Reckless ), Christian Rubeck ( Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters ) and Pal Sverre Hagen ( Kon-Tiki ). Close plays the fierce head of the Child Allocation Bureau, Nicolette Cayman.

It was produced by Vendome Pictures and Raffaella Productions and fully financed by SND, which will handle French distribution rights as well as international sales.

The script was written by Kerry Williamson ( Alex Cross ) and Max Botkin ( Robosapien: Rebooted ).

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The writer/director behind the 2019 Golden Globe-nominated La Llorona , Jayro Bustamante , is back with another historical-based genre fable in Rita . Deadline reports today that Rita has been acquired by Shudder.

The film will be released on Shudder on November 22, 2024 .

Rita follows a 13-year-old “who , while fleeing a neglectful household, is placed in an oppressive state-run orphanage. Rita’s arrival provides a glimmer of hope to the girls inside, who share a prophecy that an angel will appear to release them. Encouraged by one another, the girls plan an escape to claim their freedom and expose the orphanage’s abuses of power. Based on the true story behind one of Guatemala’s most harrowing tragedies — the orphanage fire of 2017, which took the lives of 41 girls —  Rita shines a light on the brave orphans whose fight for survival inspired a nationwide outcry for justice and reform.”

Giuliana Santa Cruz , Alejandra Vasquez , Ángela Quevedo , Isabel Aldana , Sabrina De La Hoz , Margarita Kénefic and Maria Telón star. 

Bustamante, no stranger to filtering sociopolitical themes and history through the lens of genre film, went through an extensive national casting call to assemble the film’s cast of child actors.

“Working with Shudder from the beginning felt like the right connection, as I found a distributor that shares the belief that cinema is more than just entertainment or a commercial product,” Bustamante told Deadline. “Since we launched LA LLORONA, Shudder has shown a great ability to handle my films, making them available to viewers through various channels, recognizing that the genre in cinema can be used to generate a powerful, positive, and thought-provoking social impact.”

Stated Shudder’s SVP of Acquisitions and Production Emily Gotto, “We are so proud to continue our work with Jayro, who has proven time and again to be a fearless filmmaker whose dedication to his homeland has put a spotlight on the rich talent and complicated history of Guatemala. RITA again demonstrates Jayro’s deft handling of the horror genre as a catalyst for powerful storytelling, and we can’t wait for the film to leave an impact on audiences.”

Producers of the film include Bustamante, Jonathan King for Concordia Studio, and Gustavo Matheu.

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When I was a youngster you’d be hard pressed to find me reading what back in the sixties were considered ‘girls’ books. Mallory Towers, that sort of thing. And especially something like Little Women. I vaguely knew the plot but, meah, not for me.

Wind on the clock and as I entered by twenties and a sort of Neolithic cultural phase, I began to read classics and hunt out serious plays. Shakespeare wasn’t bad, Ibsen had his moments. Moliere too. But Chekhov? Uncle Vanya came and went and I thought, maybe when I’m grown up.

How therefore did I find myself watching Three Sisters on Monday followed by another four on Tuesday? PG Wodehouse warned me about the duplicity of aunts but did I really need to be cautioned about an overdose of the sisterhood?

And here’s the thing. They were, in their very different ways, worthy of my precious time. I didn’t say I’d learnt humility, did I?

Starting with the Chekhov at the National, and The Three Sisters, this piece was set during the Biafran independence push between 67 and 70. You couldn’t be a child of that time and not be aware of the appalling pictures of pot bellied malnourished children. If Live Aid did that for the 80s Biafra did it for the 60s.

The benefit of taking a standard, like Chekhov’s piece and resetting it is that the core of the play, the power-plays between sisters, the patriarchal restrictions and the all round cunning of domestic warfare remains intact – it’s modernised to the time of course so for instance a duel becomes a wrestling match. These tensions are universal and it matters not which of the last 500 years you set it in for the storylines to remain relevant. But then you add the political background, the tribal, post colonial tensions, the differing viewpoints and you have an engrossing production.

No it was far from perfect. I sighed so deeply I inhaled two rows of the circle so despairing was I of the first ten minutes when the characters stood and declaimed like they were part of an open soliloquy night. Good heavens can’t writers reveal their characters and the essential back story with a little bit of finesse?

And while the actors portrayed many emotions none of them seemed comfortable with lust and sexual attraction. It was a little like watching year 5 nativity night when the distance and lack of physical contact between the boy Joseph and the girl Mary made the concept of a virgin birth not only credible but inevitable.

And what on Earth was the point of a net curtain across the stage during the third act? I know there were meant to be war wounded on the other side but all the curtain did was make me think that the neighbourhood watch had somehow sponsored this production.

The critics warned us this was three hours… long but it passed easily enough and without the usual recovery nap that I need these days for anything that includes bonnets and side whiskers. Or in this case towering headdresses and industrial strength moustaches. I’m glad, over all that I went.

The critics have been kind to Little Women. Very. And you couldn’t fault the cast. But that’s true of Cats and look what a priapic tail and floating faces have done to Judy Dench and Taylor Swift.

I think Saoirse Rohan is a fab actress. Florence Pugh too. Laura Dern and Meryl Streep are both consummate professionals. Emma Watson is a little two paced for me, frankly a bit like watching the Ladybird Book of Emoting For Beginners. But as an ensemble of female acting talent it would be criminal to offer them anything as misconceived as Cats.

Fortunately for us they are given a wonderful piece of writing. Now, okay, I’m not a fan of the St Vitus timeline that we have here, with it jumping from childhood to adulthood to the first loves to the current day. The only time I was sure when we were was 1. When Jo March was in New York and Amy in France and 2. When Jo sold her hair. Otherwise I held my breath at a change of scene and waited for a clue. Was Beth dead… oh please, if you don’t know the plot then read a summary – this piece has been around too long for plot spoilers to be an issue. Had father reappeared? Was Aunt March dead?

Still being made to concentrate isn’t such a bad thing and the beautiful writing, the fantastically attractive settings, the utterly unmemorable score – believe me that is a good thing; I can’t tell you the times some ill presented piece of music has ruined a cinematic experience – all of it added up to a lovely night at the cinema.

This is a good film, a watchable piece. It tugs at ones emotions, it explains in ways that the Three Sisters failed fully to unravel, each of the March sisters’ motivations without creating heroes and villains. These are nuanced characters, flawed and frustrated and you root for them all in the end. Even the long suffering mother is better understood in Laura Dean’s hands as anything other than a saint. Her lot is hard, uncompromising and she’s had to make hard choices not all of which are necessarily kind.

Oh and apart from the old guy from the big house who was a bit of a Wuss really, all the men were somewhere on the pathetic spectrum of masculinity. I didn’t root for any of them except to the extent their fortunes were inextricably linked to the March sisters. Indeed, Jo’s publisher apart, if this was the only version of manhood you’d experienced you really would have to wonder why men had any power at all.

Still they say write what you know and maybe Miss Alcott found herself surrounded by emotional eunuchs. I hope they don’t get the gig in some TV spinoff.

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Indeed. Worth the effort.

If I went it would be me on my own 🥴

I hope to see Little Women – one of the books I loved long ago.

You should love it

Splendid writing, Geoff.

Aw you are too generous

I always enjoy your reviews Geoff, though it must be hell going to the theatre with you 😀

I can be a bit of a grump esp in the interval if the first half has been a bit slow or clunky or poorly set or… well pretty much anything I think thats why Linda needs a tub of icecream #comfortfood. Mind you that’s another thing. 3 pounds something for a tub even Thumberlina would say was tiny…

I can not imagine that reworking of Chekhov. Just as well. Glad you endured it for me. Thought my granddaughter would be up for Little Women but she told me the trailer turned her off by going back and forth. So she would have been a good grumpy companion for the film.

Essential type of companion. But really it was very good.

I’m pleased to hear they did a good job of Little Women. I am almost afraid to watch a movie of a favourite book.

Not having known it I loved it really but it is a danger…

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Not having watched any of the iterations since Kate Hepburn played Jo, I was feeling a bit ambivalent about this one too, but … based on your erudition, I might just give it a go. 🙂

Do you’ll really like it…. I hope.

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Lucinda Riley’s ‘The Seven Sisters’ Is A Must-Read Series

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Today we want to introduce you to a unique book series which follows seven sisters on their discovery of her roots. In 2014, Lucinda Riley published her first book in the Seven Sisters series and since then, every year a new and beautiful book has been released.

The Northern Ireland historical fiction author says she wanted to celebrate the achievements of women, especially in the past. Every volume contains two stories—one in the past and one in the present.

The Seven Sisters tells the story of six sisters, adopted by a Swiss billionaire called by them as Pa Salt. He adopted the girls as babies from all over the world and gave them a home on his island in the middle of Lake Geneva. After his unexpected death, the sisters receive letters with coordinates and clues which will lead each of them to their roots and explore where they come from. On this journey, each of them not only find themselves, but also find love in different ways—a future husband, an additional family, and new friendships. In between, Riley tells also the story of a female ancestor of the protagonists books, which unfortunately for the sisters, they did not have a happy ending.

The book series name is inspired by the open star cluster located in the constellation of Taurus, which is the nearest cluster to earth, The Pleiades. The name comes from Ancient Greek, plein—to sail. The constellations are important to navigate on sea, which is a part of the books as well, because Pa Salt loved to be in the open water. In Greek Mythology, the Pleiades have been the seven companions of Artemis, Daughters of the Titan Atlas and Pleione. Because of their father’s faith and the loss of their brothers, the Hyas, the sisters committed suicide. Zeus took their remains and put them in the sky, but one sister, Merope, unfortunately disappeared from the night sky, because she is now not visible for the naked eye.

Before they became the star cluster they all had an important role in Greek mythology:

  • Maia—the eldest sister, was mother of Hermes by Zeus
  • Electra—mother of Dardanus and Iasion, by Zeus
  • Taygete—mother of Lacedaemon by Zeus
  • Alcyone—mother of Hyrieus, Hyperenor and Aethusa by Poseidon
  • Celaeno—mother of Lycus, Nycteus and Eurypylus by Poseidon and Lycus and Chimaereus by Prometheus
  • Sterope (Asterope)—mother of Oenomaus by Ares
  • Merope—the youngest sister, wooed by Orion. Other sources claim she was married to Sisyphus was mother of his children and became mortal.

The books see the sisters want love in their lives, but not in a traditional way. Riley’s goal is to show how women in the past had to be strong due to facing sexual and racial prejudices. Whereas women in the present have to be another kind of strong, to not be defined by clichés and be a modern woman who can follow her dreams. During her research, Riley travelled the world and explores the places she later wrote about.

In her own words:

“The world is sadly still not a perfect place, and I doubt it ever will be, because there will always be a new challenge ahead. Yet I truly believe that humans – especially women – thrive on this. We are, after all, the goddesses of multi-tasking! And every day – with one hand guiding my children, and the other a manuscript – I celebrate the fact that my ‘freedom’ to be who I am was won by thousands of generations of remarkable women, perhaps leading right back to The Seven Sisters themselves…

I’m sure that like me, there will be one sister in particular you will most identify with, and a sister you like the least. However, the beauty of writing about the girls is that each of them have their own unique strengths and weaknesses. Just as we all do.

The Seven Sisters is a story about humanity: love, family, joy, loss, fear and pain. And above all, the one gift that is more important than any other, and has kept us humans alive throughout unbearable suffering: HOPE.”

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The Seven Sisters | 2014

This book about the oldest sister, Maia, who is a translator and prefers to stay home on Lake Geneva. When her sisters leave after their father’s funeral, she opens the letter her father left for her. She soon finds herself in Brazil where she not only finds out where she comes from, but also love.

The Storm Sister | 2015

Ally loves sailing as much as her father did and her letter brings her to Norway and a sailing contest. She ends up with a new family and it may not seem as a happy end for her, but it is in its own unique way.

The Shadow Sister | 2016

Star and CeCe were brought together by Pa Salt in a short period of time that they are almost like twins. Star is more introverted and steps out of her sister’s shadow when she started to work at a bookshop in London where her journey begins.

The Pearl Sister | 2017

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CeCe has to find herself again after Star seems to not rely on her as much as she used to. She drops out of college and follows her father’s letter to Thailand and Australia.

The Moon Sister | 2018

The latest novel will tell the journey of Tiggy, which will take her to Scotland. The book will be published in late 2018.

This then leaves Electra’s story to be told in 2019. It will be interesting to see how the book series will end and if we will finally meet Merope. I cannot wait for the mystery to be revealed!

Have you read  The Seven Sisters series? Tell us in the comments below!

Synopsis | Goodreads

Maia D’Apliese and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, “Atlantis”—a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva—having been told that their beloved father, who adopted them all as babies, has died. Each of them is handed a tantalizing clue to her true heritage—a clue which takes Maia across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Once there, she begins to put together the pieces of her story and its beginnings.

Eighty years earlier in Rio’s Belle Epoque of the 1920s, Izabela Bonifacio’s father has aspirations for his daughter to marry into the aristocracy. Meanwhile, architect Heitor da Silva Costa is devising plans for an enormous statue, to be called Christ the Redeemer, and will soon travel to Paris to find the right sculptor to complete his vision. Izabela—passionate and longing to see the world—convinces her father to allow her to accompany him and his family to Europe before she is married. There, at Paul Landowski’s studio and in the heady, vibrant cafes of Montparnasse, she meets ambitious young sculptor Laurent Brouilly, and knows at once that her life will never be the same again.

In this sweeping, epic tale of love and loss—the first in a unique, spellbinding series of seven novels—Lucinda Riley showcases her storytelling talent like never before.

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Lucinda riley's bestselling the seven sisters series may be coming to your television in the not too distant future..

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Lucinda Riley's bestselling  The Seven Sisters  series may be coming to television in the not too distant future.

LA production company Raffaella Productions is to create a multi-season television series based on Pan Macmillan author Lucinda Riley's bestselling  The Seven Sisters  series.

Loosely based on the mythology of the star constellation known as the Pleiades (‘The Seven Sisters'), Riley's book series brings the sisters into the modern world, following five adopted sisters as they travel across the world in search of their true heritage.

Producer Raffaella de Laurentiis came across the books during production for 'What Happened to Monday?' - a sci-fi action thriller which also features a story of seven sisters – and immediately saw its appeal. She comments:

'While Riley's storyline is completely different from 'What Happened to Monday?', the book's title and the seven sisters connection compelled me to read it. Though 'What Happened to Monday?' deals with seven sisters in quite a different time and setting, the coincidence was just too much to resist. I immediately fell in love with Lucinda's story.'

Irish author Lucinda Riley wrote her first novel at twenty-four.  Hothouse Flower  was a Richard and Judy book club choice and became a number one international bestseller. She is now a New York Times bestselling author and her books have sold more than eight million copies in thirty-nine languages.

Jeremy Trevathan, Publisher, Pan Macmillan, comments:

'I'm so delighted that Lucinda's sweeping romantic saga of seven sisters will reach the screen. Her books are so visual that I can see how well they would work for television.'

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Maia D’Aplièse and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home – a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva – having been told that their beloved adoptive father, the elusive billionaire they call Pa Salt, has died.

Each of them is handed a tantalising clue to their true heritage – a clue which takes Maia across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Once there, she begins to put together the pieces of where her story began.

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