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10/15/06
Weekend (1967)
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Reviews Counted: 16 Fresh: 15 Rotten:1 Average Rating: 8.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Synopsis: The master of the French New Wave indicts consumerism and elaborates on his personal vision of Hell with this raucous, biting satire. A nasty, scheming bourgeois Parisian couple embarks on a journey through the countryside to her father's house, where they pray for his death and a subsequent... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Jean Yanne, Mireille Darc, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Screenwriter: Jean-Luc Godard
Director: Raoul Coutard
Composer: Antoine Duhamel
Screenwriter: Jean-Luc Godard
Director: Raoul Coutard
Composer: Antoine Duhamel
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There is nothing predictable about Weekend; Godard uses the camera as a radical satirical tool, inserting it up the backside of a society he perceives as lost, constrained and confused. And so are we.
03/23/08
A film that reads itself, tells the viewer what that reading should be, and at the same time tells the viewer that this reading is inaccurate and should be ignored.
01/20/08
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09/15/07
This is Lord of the Flies as played by adults, and for Left Bank intellectuals, heady with righteous protest and wired on too many coffees and cigarettes
10/14/06
Visionary, insane, and barbarously funny; don't miss the chance to accept the challenge Weekend is still dying to make.
02/09/06
Weekend is a luridly colorful compendium of aesthetic juxtapositions and audio-visual schisms that evoke the frustrated tenor of the era.
08/29/05
Godard pushes his Brechtian didactics to the limit, his exhilarating modernism giving him free rein to draw on Freud, Marx, Lewis Carroll and James Bond.
08/25/04
The film must be seen, for its power, ambition, humor, and scenes of really astonishing beauty.
07/11/04
Top Critic
Week End constantly propagates images that convey class and taste. And in few films does privilege seem so crass and repellant.
10/15/03
A brutally satirical film somewhat reminiscent of the works of Luis Bunuel, this was Jean-Luc Godard's most ambitious and vociferous 'revolutionary' movie before he retired to the shelter of the Dziga-Vertov group.
07/30/03
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