Weekend

1967 104 min ★ 6.9 Comedy

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 weight of its own consumer preoccupations.

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Cast

Mireille Darc

Corinne Durand

Jean Yanne

Roland Durand

Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Le Chef du Front de Libération de la Seine et Oise

Yves Afonso

Gros Poucet (uncredited)

Yves Beneyton

Un Membre du FLSO (uncredited)

Juliet Berto

Une Activiste du FLSO / Jeune Bourgeoise Accidentée (uncredited)

Michèle Breton

Girl in the Woods (uncredited)

Michel Cournot

Man From Farmyard (uncredited)

Lex De Bruijn

Revolutionary (uncredited)

Omar Diop

Mon Frère Africain (uncredited)

Details

Director

Jean-Luc Godard

Status

Released

Original Language

FR

Budget

$250,000

Production

Cinecidi, Comacico, Les Films Copernic, Lira Films

Reviews

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CRCulver

May 27, 2018

★ 10/10

As the 1960s went on Jean-Luc Godard kept up the kind of brash, zany, experimental style with which he made his name and became a cornerstone of the French New Wave, but his work increasingly showed a political consciousness sparked by the explosion of the consumer society in that decade. The class of haves, in his view, were being increasingly selfish and dog-eat-dog, while the have-nots of the w...