Weekend (1967) ( Le week-end ) ( Week end, un uomo e una donna dal sabato alla domenica )

Weekend (1967) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Le week-end
Alternate Title: Week end, un uomo e una donna dal sabato alla domenica
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1967 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Jean-Luc Godard

Written By:
Jean-Luc Godard

Actors:
Mireille Darc ..... Corinne Durand
Jean Yanne ..... Roland Durand
Jean-Pierre Kalfon ..... Le chef du Front de Libération de la Seine et Oise

Synopsis:

French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's Le Weekend remains his most consistently relentless attack on the bourgeois values of his own country and the perceived imperialism of the United States. Mireille Darc plays the central character, an 'average' woman who is systematically radicalized during a weekend motor trip. No sooner have the woman and her husband (Jean Yanne) embarked on their journey than they become enmeshed in the mother of all traffic jams. The motorists rave, rant, burn, rape, murder, pillage and even descend into cannibalism - all of which is treated by Godard as a natural progression of events. The prevalent theory that Jean-Luc Godard had intended Weekend as the apotheosis of his career is bolstered by the film's last two titles: 'End of Film.' 'End of Cinema.'

A bickering scheming bourgeois couple leave Paris for the French countryside to fraudulently claim an inheritance. 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 cinemtography, including an unbroken ten minute tracking shot, Godard's dystopian road movie is a ferocious attack on consumerism.

A young couple taking a country drive from Paris find themselves falling upon an incredible traffic jam and a subsequent path of destruction and mayhem.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 16 May, 2012.