A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
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Prestige, relentless, bleak and plot-driven.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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- CRCulveron TMDB · May 201810/10
As the 1960s went on Jean-Luc Godard kept up the kind of brash, zany, experimental style with which he made his name and became a cornerstone of the French New Wave, but his work increasingly showed a political consciousness sparked by the explosion of the consumer society in that decade. The class of haves, in his view, were being increasingly selfish and dog-eat-dog, while the have-nots of the world could not be expected to stand by idly. Society was surely headed for a breakdown, and his 1967 film WEEKEND is an absurdist vision of it in one hour and forty-five minutes. This is emphatically *not* a good entry point to Godard -- if you don't know his work, see Breathless or Le Mepris first -- but it is a marvelous capstone to his first decade of cinema. (After this, Godard disappeared from the limelight for some years while making more overtly political films with Jean-Pierre Gorin as the Dziga Vertov collective.) Married couple Roland (Jean Yanne) and Corinne (Mireille Darc) set off from Paris one weekend for Corinne's parents' home, as her father is dying and they want to make sure they get their cut of inheritance. Not only is their relationship with Corinne's parents focused s
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Cast
- Mireille DarcCorinne Durand
- Jean YanneRoland Durand
- Jean-Pierre KalfonLe Chef du Front de Libération de la Seine et Oise
- Yves AfonsoGros Poucet (uncredited)
- Yves BeneytonUn Membre du FLSO (uncredited)
- Juliet BertoUne Activiste du FLSO / Jeune Bourgeoise Accidentée (uncredited)
- Michèle BretonGirl in the Woods (uncredited)
- Michel CournotMan From Farmyard (uncredited)
- Lex De BruijnRevolutionary (uncredited)
- Omar DiopMon Frère Africain (uncredited)
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- Jean-Luc GodardDirector
- Jean-Luc GodardWriter
- Raoul CoutardDirector of Photography
- Antoine DuhamelOriginal Music Composer
- Agnès GuillemotEditor
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