Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • 1967 • France
Starring Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne
This scathing late-sixties satire from Jean-Luc Godard is one of cinema’s great anarchic works. Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring a justly famous sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingly endless traffic jam, and rich with historical and literary references, WEEKEND is a surreally funny and disturbing call for revolution, a depiction of society reverting to savagery, and—according to the credits—the end of cinema itself.
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • 1967 • France
Starring Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne
This scathing late-sixties satire from Jean-Luc Godard is one of cinema’s great anarchic works. Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while...
The following video essay on Jean-Luc Godard’s WEEKEND, by writer and filmmaker Kent Jones, was produced in 2012.
Cinematographer Raoul Coutard recalls working with director Jean-Luc Godard on WEEKEND.
Actors Mireille Darc and Jean Yanne recall working with director Jean-Luc Godard on WEEKEND.
Assistant director Claude Miller recalls working with director Jean-Luc Godard on WEEKEND.
In October 1967, while Jean-Luc Godard was filming WEEKEND, director Philippe Garrel filmed him, along with his cast and crew. That footage was edited into this 1967 episode of the documentary television series “Seize millions de jeunes” about Godard and his emulators. It includes comments about ...
