Featured Audience Ratings

• Greg S

  
  A cruel bourgeois couple take a weekend to travel to see the wife's dying father in hopes of grabbing his inheritance, but traffic patterns, civilization, and reality all break down during their journey. Jean-Luc Godard's satire in the style of Luis Bunuel mixes exhilarating… More
  A cruel bourgeois couple take a weekend to travel to see the wife's dying father in hopes of grabbing his inheritance, but traffic patterns, civilization, and reality all break down during their journey. Jean-Luc Godard's satire in the style of Luis Bunuel mixes exhilarating ideas (the unexplained car wrecks everywhere give a sense of society collapsing) with pedantic ones (dated Marxist lectures on colonialism); it's all "very Sixites." You could see it either as Godard's last accessible film, or his first inaccessible one.

• Aditya G

  
  When was the last time you had a hell lot of fun while watching a film? And we aren't even talking escapist, commercial popcorn flicks or sitcoms! Far from it. We're talking about an avant-garde surrealist film, highly disturbing yet darkly humorous at the same time....in… More
  When was the last time you had a hell lot of fun while watching a film? And we aren't even talking escapist, commercial popcorn flicks or sitcoms! Far from it. We're talking about an avant-garde surrealist film, highly disturbing yet darkly humorous at the same time....in French New Wave style! Jean-Luc Godard's "Weekend" (sometimes written "Week End") will guarantee a delightfully macabre ride through hell, as a husband and wife cheating on each other decide to ride to the country to secure inheritance from the parents of the wife, by possibly murdering her father! Sounds crazy? Not half as crazy as what ensues next as their journey turns into an outlandish odyssey through a nightmare full of traffic jams and gruesome car accidents and terrorists and hippies and cannibals! [img]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-hItrCccR3F0/T6lY_ojd6qI/AAAAAAAAChc/HbKkFHlB1eM/s544/vlcsnap-2012-05-08-22h58m43s69.jpg[/img] What "Weekend" is about is difficult to pen. Perhaps it is about Godard's bizarre vision of the apocalypse; of a bleak future that's going to see the end of civilization as we know it; a world in which people will turn on one another and start raping and looting and killing and eating each other! A world in which the bourgeois society will bear the brunt of its own materialistic trappings...when people will become so insensitive, they will even steal stuff off of dead bodies rather nonchalantly! Or perhaps "Weekend" is merely a black comedy built around everything Godard personally hated and wanted to make fun of, through the medium he knows best...cinema! And he pulls it off like there's no tomorrow! Sometimes he also resorts to self-parody! And for that, he uses some insane yet subtle absurdist humour. Blink and you may miss some of the gems and golden lines uttered in this film. Sample this: Roland (Jean Yanne) abandons (or loses) his car and starts out on foot with his wife Corinne (Mireille Darc ). On the way there are numerous mangled bodies, victims of car accidents and the remains of their vehicles lying around, but they are just casually ignored! Roland tries to ask directions to another character in the film, gets some loony response in return and comments "What a rotten film! All we meet are crazy people!" [img]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LYhBDjKUAAk/T6lZAodH1GI/AAAAAAAACho/H2zBQtT4aWA/s544/vlcsnap-2012-05-08-22h59m49s219.jpg[/img] Godard, an eccentric auteur that he is, makes sure he frustrates his audiences as well as keeps them hooked with his bravura writing. Usage of intertitles isn't uncommon in a Godard film, but in "Weekend" they take on a new, entirely free form, get sprinkled arbitrarily between scenes, interrupting randomly yet trying to say something about the scene at hand. But they don't always take a serious form; sometimes some of the dialog uttered takes the form of intertitles, sometimes Godard tries to be funny by adding title cards like "A film found on scrap heap" to describe this motion picture! At other times we see some sharp political jibes. Then there are the typical Godard idiosyncrasies including a background score that sometimes drowns the dialog and appears out of nowhere and disappears just as suddenly as it appeared; some deliberate repetitions of scenes and dialogs as if it's some editing flaw! And let's not forget the over 8 minutes long tracking shot of a traffic jam accompanied by blaring car horns in the background and car drivers cursing each other in the foreground! This shot ends in an ironic fashion that reveals the cause of the jam! The film takes dramatic turns with one bizarre event after another, subjecting us to a savagely funny ride, with senseless political speeches, oddball camerawork and ultimately an allegorical, chaotic finale.....the aim was clearly to alarm the viewer and leave him/her in a jaw-dropped state! [img]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NlMPyk9q5dQ/T6lZARh44XI/AAAAAAAAChg/WkOZCd6GptI/s544/vlcsnap-2012-05-08-22h47m41s110.jpg[/img] There are notable movie references....although it is difficult to say in one case; a "Persona"-esque (Ingmar Bergman, 1966) monologue of Corinne narrating a particularly wild sexual adventure, and in a nod to Luis Bunuel, perhaps, a title card that reads "The Exterminating Angel" (1962). Speaking of Bunuel, it is not difficult to find some creative similarities between "Weekend" and Bunuel's "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie". Nonetheless, this could be a first film of its kind for Godard (it is a significant departure compared to his earlier 60s works) and he makes sure he leaves no stone unturned in delivering a masterwork. "Weekend" could very well have been rechristened "Week End" (as it is known in some countries) owing to the fact that this was Godard's final film of his most celebrated cinematic period. Highly imaginative, but pure Madness; Godard's "Weekend" = Luis Bunuel on steroids! Score: 10/10 (Hands down!) [img]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RSu58qX9n2k/T6lZBZ_QsxI/AAAAAAAAChs/BCZSLWr6mos/s544/vlcsnap-2012-05-08-23h02m42s159.jpg[/img]

• Conner R

  
  An unconventional bit of storytelling that I found to be quite enjoyable. Looking at this movie with a preconceived notion of narrative would make this an extremely unpleasant and boring experience. Letting go would be the first thing I would advise someone to do. Given the proper… More
  An unconventional bit of storytelling that I found to be quite enjoyable. Looking at this movie with a preconceived notion of narrative would make this an extremely unpleasant and boring experience. Letting go would be the first thing I would advise someone to do. Given the proper lens, it's a beautiful film. Its hostility towards traditions are quite interesting. It attacks not only capitalism, but marriage, life, death and compassion.

• Jennifer D

  
  Bizarrely strange and beautifully done. Nice political message.

• Stella D

  
  radical surrealist road movie a la buñuel. political harangues get a bit tiresome. no doubt it was cutting edge in 1967

• Arash X

  
  "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"

• Rubia Carolina .

  
  Political. Surrealist. With terrible black humour. Trop stupide pour moi. <br> <br>

• Pierluigi P

  
  Campy and mildly funny attack to the upper classes by Jean-Luc Godard, one of the most acid and persuasive demagogues in film history.

• Lady D

  
  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

• Ken S

  
  Imagine La Aventura meets Discreet Charm of the Bourgeois meets Monty Python

• Adam M

  
  Godard's most f'd up, apocalyptic movie

• cody f

  
  First off I am not a big fan of Godard. I think Godard is really talented and groundbreaking,especially with the style and visuals of his films. What he does that bothers me is he is too political, too preachy and relies on shocking the audience too much, and that is what's wrong… More
  First off I am not a big fan of Godard. I think Godard is really talented and groundbreaking,especially with the style and visuals of his films. What he does that bothers me is he is too political, too preachy and relies on shocking the audience too much, and that is what's wrong with Weekend. The story never really makes any sense, people are being raped and murdered everywhere and their is no explanation. There is an amazing tracking shot of a car slowly weaving through traffic as chaos reigns all around, really this scene should be shown in all film school. Sadly there is another scene where a garbage man rants about politics in America for 10 minutes, it's dated and a waste of time. I thought there was no story or direction, just moments, some good, some bad. I know it's a surrealist film,but it is dated and is kinda a mess. Overall not a film I would revisit, but glad I watched some of it.

• Ivan D

  
  Godard's Surrealist film that deconstructs bourgeois society, from its highly materialistic self back into primitive savagery, symbolized by the apocalyptic imagery of road accidents and dead bodies. Aside from that, "Week End" tackled a wide-range of sensitive topics,… More
  Godard's Surrealist film that deconstructs bourgeois society, from its highly materialistic self back into primitive savagery, symbolized by the apocalyptic imagery of road accidents and dead bodies. Aside from that, "Week End" tackled a wide-range of sensitive topics, from armchair politics to class struggle, highlighted by grotesque images suggesting the film's take on such issues. Godard has also able to insert a brief critique of pseudo-intellectual cinema, in a scene where the main character told the poem-reciting woman that "this is not a novel. This is a film. Film is life". "Week End" is not an ordinary film, or was it even normal. It was "far from normal", it tries to point out a different, pessimistic take on a postmodern world, but turned out to be too pretentious for its own good.

• Tom S

  
  Earlier Godard directed with a chuckle. This Godard says "Ha!" and violently spits on the ground.

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