Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
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 we...( read more
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DVD Release Date: August 23, 2005
Stats: 520 reviews
radical surrealist road movie a la buńuel. political harangues get a bit tiresome. no doubt it was cutting edge in 1967
Weirdness is something I tend to cherish a lot in a movie. But really, this one was simply plain annoying to watch, partially because of the score which relies a lot on painful sounds like horns and pissed off people screaming.
Campy and mildly funny attack to the upper classes by Jean-Luc Godard, one of the most acid and persuasive demagogues in film history.
This film, completely went over my head, I?m sure to many it?s a creative masterpiece, but I just found it dull, annoying and it lacked any kind of real storyline
Imagine La Aventura meets Discreet Charm of the Bourgeois meets Monty Python
Godard is such a skilled filmmaker, it's such a shame he thinks postmodern surrealism has any value. This film has not aged well.
"What a rotten film. All we meet are crazy people"
Now I can see why Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 25 Most Dangerous Movies"
when i first watched this i hated it, because I had been expecting a film with a clear and fairly conventional narrative, with some cool Nouvalle Vague dressing on it. It's only after listening to the DVD commentary with David Sterrit that i even knew this film is a surrealist, counter culture, political type thing. It was then that I appreciated it for what it was.
Most folks' fave Godard movie is Breathless, or Masculin/Feminin, or Bande A Part -- but, for some reason, Weekend is mine.
The last 20 minutes are great. I enjoy the long tracking shots and Godard's willingness to screw with the conventions of film making, something he'd been doing already, but which seems to have reached some sort of fever pitch in this movie. I'll try not to spoil the movie, but the film literally shows sixties-style guerilla rebels eating the rich!
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