Weekend

Cast

Mireille Darc
as Corinne

Jean Yanne
as Roland

Jean-Pierre Kalfon
as Le Chef

Valérie Lagrange
as Moll

Paul Gégauff
as pianist

Jean-Pierre Léaud
as Saint-Just

Paul Gaugauff
as Pianist

Yzes Alfonso
as Gros Poncet

Blandine Jeanson
as Emily Bronte

Virginie Vignon
as Marie-Madeleine

Juliet Berto
as Girl in Car Crash/Mcmber of FLSO

Yves Beneyton
as Member of FLSO

Daniel Pommereulle
as Joseph Balsamo

Yves Afonso
as Tom Thumb

Yves Alfonso
as Gros Poncet

Juliette Berto
as Girl in Car Crash/Member of FLSO

Anne Wiazemsky
as Girl in Farmyard/Member of FLSO

Jean Eustache
as Hitchhiker

Jean-Claude Guilbert
as Tramp

Ernest Menzer
as Cook

Georges Staquet
as Tractor Driver

Laszlo Szabo
as The Arab Speaking for His Black Brother

Michel Cournot
as Man from Farmyard

Mons. Jojot
as Monsieur Jojot (uncredited)

Isabelle Pons
as (uncredited)

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Critic Reviews for Weekend

Audience Reviews for Weekend

• Jul 06, 2016

  Sheer cinematic anarchy. Easy to admire, but hard to love.
  Marcus W Super Reviewer
• Nov 01, 2013

  A bourgeois husband and wife plan a delightful weekend during which they plan to kill their relatives for inheritance. Eric Braysmith said, "What's interesting about this film is the many ways you hate it." I'm more blunt: fuck this movie. Fuck this movie backwards, sideways, and with that knife-dildo from Seven. Like most of Godard's work, this film defies understanding, and anyone who fully understands it is already inculcated in the film's politics and intellectual community and consequently doesn't need to watch it. Everyone else is left confused. A condemnation of bourgeois ideology, the accessible parts of the film are heavy-handed, and the inaccessible parts wreak of pretentious self-gratification. Overall, Jean-Luc Godard, whom I've long despised, can finally go fuck himself.
  Jim H Super Reviewer
• Nov 28, 2012

  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.
  Greg S Super Reviewer
• Nov 04, 2011

  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.
  cody f Super Reviewer

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