Weekend (1967)

Original title

Week End

Directed by

Jean-Luc Godard

Genre

drama film, comedy drama, dystopian film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

R

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 314 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A couple drives through the French countryside to collect an inheritance, encountering increasingly bizarre and violent traffic jams, accidents, and random acts of cruelty. The film presents a surreal and scathing critique of consumer society and bourgeois morality.

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What happens

Weekend (French: Week-end) is a 1967 postmodern black comedy film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, based on Julio Cortázar's short story "La autopista del Sur". It stars mainstream French TV stars Mireille Darc and Jean Yanne. Jean-Pierre Léaud, star of numerous French New Wave films, including François Truffaut's The 400 Blows (1959) and Godard's earlier Masculin Féminin (1966), appeared in two roles. Raoul Coutard served as cinematographer and Suzanne Schiffman as script supervisor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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