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A bickering, scheming bourgeois couple leave Paris for the French countryside to claim an inheritance by nefarious means. Almost immediately, they become entangled in a cataclysmic traffic jam, which is just the beginning of a journey fraught with violent and dangerous encounters: rape, murder, pillage and even cannibalism. Famed for its virtuoso cinematography - including a stunning ten minute tracking shot - Godard s dystopian road movie is a ferocious attack on consumerism.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Good Weekend,
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This review is from: Weekend [1967] [DVD] (DVD)
I must say that this is one of the funniest and most disturbing films I've seen in a while.I got my Jean Luc Goddard film "Weekend" and boy I wasn't disapointed - it's at times disorganised chaos and at times it is almost like a series of films within a film. There's canabalism, murder, revolutionary speak, road rage, neighbour rage, child rage, a pig killing, political monologs that boggled my brain, a 3 mile or 20 minute plus single take tracking shot (one of the best bits), Death of a goose, rape, over 10,000 degree (in 1 take) tracking shot, disembowelment, the statement : "When Roland drives your Father home from the clinic... it would be nice if they both died in an accident.", a chess game. I recomend this to anyone with an open mind that leans towards the surrealist avant-garde.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
As much pleasure as an actual car crash....,
By T. R. Kidner "Hucklebrook Hound" (Salisbury, UK) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Weekend [1967] [DVD] (DVD)
Despite having a cleverly conceived and infamous 8 minute continuous take of the traffic jam from hell, I simply find this film plain nasty.There is no humour to lift the macabre hell and whilst it might have been dreamt up in a hallucinogenic haze, when this was fashionable, this doesn't relate to me. I get the slant on the misplaced morals in a modern society (a woman escaping from a burning car is only concerned for her designer handbag, not her passengers' well-being). It then just gets weirder and weirder, interspersed by shrill and ugly lunacy. As you can guess, I've never got into J L Godard. I love with passion almost all French, Italian and other world cinema, with Felinni and Bergman, both considered a bit balmy and self-centred, as favourites. It was only through esteemed Film Guides and other reviews that praised this film to the heights that I ever considered buying it. It's relative rarity and controversy are the only reasons to hang onto it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the most important films ever made -- Why no blu-ray?!!,
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This review is from: Weekend [1967] [DVD] (DVD)
Week-End is, of course, one of the most important films in film history.
It is truly incredible that no really good quality Blu-Ray is available. (Indeed, one reviewer here raised the disturbing possibility that this DVD is a botch: Week-End is (of course!) 105 minutes long ... this DVD seems to be the wrong length? A nightmare...) Why is no definitive version of W.E. available? It makes no sense?
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