Weekend
Weekend • 1h 44m
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.
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The following video essay on Jean-Luc Godard’s WEEKEND, by writer and filmmaker Kent Jones, was produced in 2012.
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Raoul Coutard on WEEKEND
Cinematographer Raoul Coutard recalls working with director Jean-Luc Godard on WEEKEND.
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Mireille Darc and Jean Yanne on WEEKEND
Actors Mireille Darc and Jean Yanne recall working with director Jean-Luc Godard on WEEKEND.
