Jean-Luc Godard - Week End (1967)

One of the world's most influential filmmakers and a leading figure of the Nouvelle Vague movement of the 60's, Jean-Luc Godard's works have transformed the face of cinema. 'Weekend' remains one of the most legendary, audacious and acclaimed films of his distinguished career. It follows a brickering, scheming bourgeois couple who leave Paris for the French countryside to claim an inheritence by nefarious means. Almost immediately, they become entangled in a cataclysmic traffic jam, which is just the beginning of a journey fraught with violent and dangerous encounters : rape, murder, pillage and even cannibalism. Famed for its virtuoso cinematography -including a stunning ten-minute tracking shot- Godard's dystopian road movie is a ferocious attack on consumerism. (– DVD Cover)



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. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0062480/plotsummary)



A unlucky married couple, that tries to kill each other, wants to travel to the countryside, but due to behaviour of all the people with travel becomes a nightmare full of accidents, terrorism and civil war. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0062480/plotsummary)



Weekend is one of the best movies I've ever seen, but it's also one of the most troubling. Its depth politically is, I believe, unmatched in cinema; Godard is truly a master, but this is, like a Sun Ra record, art for which you might need to be prepared. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0062480/usercomments)



It boils with anger, frustration, and insane energy. In one sense, it approaches film like the Cubists approached painting, breaking down images, ideas, characters and plot into startlingly photographed, almost geometric segments. But where the Cubists were to content to experiment with form Godard's instincts stay furiously political; it's as though an early Picasso had been commandeered and refitted by George Grosz. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0062480/usercomments)



Watching "Weekend" gave me the same joyous sensation as watching Bunuel's "The Phantom of Liberty." It's so blessedly free from conventionality that it's a rollercoaster of voyeuristic pleasure. Every scene is a text unto itself and maybe it relates to the whole, maybe it doesn't. Godard is making up his own rules as he goes along. This might be the first truly existential film I've seen. It's the kind of movie Nietzsche would've made if he'd been alive to see the advent of film art. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0062480/usercomments)







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