Weekend (Week End) Reviews
Cinema Writer
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
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| Original Score: 2/4
Slant Magazine
Weekend is a luridly colorful compendium of aesthetic juxtapositions and audio-visual schisms that evoke the frustrated tenor of the era.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Antagony & Ecstasy
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.
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| Original Score: 9/10
Combustible Celluloid
Perhaps the most ambitious film in [Godard's] long career.
Filmcritic.com
give the man credit for bitching about the human condition in style
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| Original Score: 4/5
Cinemania
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.
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| Original Score: 83/100
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
In the absurdist dark comedy, Western society never looked so sickening on film.
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| Original Score: A-
Top CriticThis 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.
As long as cinema like this exists, there's no end in sight.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Week End constantly propagates images that convey class and taste. And in few films does privilege seem so crass and repellant.
Boulder 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.
| Original Score: 4.5/5
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Visionary, insane, and barbarously funny; don't miss the chance to accept the challenge Weekend is still dying to make.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Pasadena Weekly
A seminal film everyone should see.
| Original Score: 5/5
Urban Cinefile
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.
Q Network Film Desk
an apocalyptic primal scream against the conformities and hypocrisies of the Americanized French bourgeoisie and one of the most lacerating and funny satires of car culture ever produced
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| Original Score: 4/4
The film must be seen, for its power, ambition, humor, and scenes of really astonishing beauty.
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| Original Score: 5/5
