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Weekend (Week End) (1967)

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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,

Aug 23, 2005

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This apocalyptic farce-Alice in Wonderland as reconceived by the Marquis de Sade-would mark both the high point and the end of Godard's meteoric career as a popular artist.

October 4, 2011 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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The film must be seen, for its power, ambition, humor, and scenes of really astonishing beauty.

July 11, 2004 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
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As long as cinema like this exists, there's no end in sight.

October 5, 2011 Full Review Source: Time Out New York | Comment
Time Out New York

Uncompromisingly cynical and completely unforgiving, Week End is a satire so black, you couldn't see hope if it was dancing in front of your eyes carrying sparklers and singing La Marseillaise.

August 9, 2011 Full Review Source: Cinemania | Comment

This is Lord of the Flies as played by adults, and for Left Bank intellectuals, heady with righteous protest and wired on too many coffees and cigarettes

August 17, 2010 Full Review Source: Cinema Writer | Comment (1)
Cinema Writer

There is nothing predictable about Weekend; Godard uses the camera as a radical satirical tool, inserting it up the backside of a society he perceives as lost, constrained and confused. And so are we.

March 23, 2008 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | Comment
Urban Cinefile

A film that reads itself, tells the viewer what that reading should be, and at the same time tells the viewer that this reading is inaccurate and should be ignored.

January 20, 2008 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | Comment
Antagony & Ecstasy

Visionary, insane, and barbarously funny; don't miss the chance to accept the challenge Weekend is still dying to make.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: F5 (Wichita, KS) | Comment

It's nice to have this superlatively nasty film on DVD in America, but what the hell is up with that corrected splice?

August 29, 2005 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

Weekend is a luridly colorful compendium of aesthetic juxtapositions and audio-visual schisms that evoke the frustrated tenor of the era.

August 29, 2005 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comments (2)
Slant Magazine

give the man credit for bitching about the human condition in style

August 22, 2005 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
Filmcritic.com

A seminal film everyone should see.

November 22, 2004 Comment
Pasadena Weekly

Godard pushes his Brechtian didactics to the limit, his exhilarating modernism giving him free rein to draw on Freud, Marx, Lewis Carroll and James Bond.

August 25, 2004 Comment
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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

November 30, 2009
ythelastman89

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Bizarrely strange and beautifully done. Nice political message.

September 6, 2009
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