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I first saw this aged 17 late night on TV, sound turned down so my parents wouldn't come down and send me to bed. Unfortunately, TV doesn't show films like this any more (not that there are any others) so today's teenagers will mostly miss the opportunity to feel shocked and affronted in the manner of a middle aged vicar. What's difficult is that it's not just viscerally unpleasant but frequently dull and constantly carries an aura of threat that seems to be directed at you the viewer, something along the lines of 'When the revolution comes, you'll be first up against the wall, you bourgeois pig.' - a still pertinent message, though not one we get to hear so much these days. Having decided he doesn't care what you think (an early onscreen text reads 'A film found on a scrapheap'), Godard can do anything he wants and does, resulting in one of the most visually inventive films of all time. There are musical sequences, figures from history and literature, long political disquisitions, virtuoso tracking shots, gunfights, miracles, readings from children's books, random onscreen texts and, as a defining motif, car crashes. After you get past the essentially superstitious feeling that the film is actually threatening to your life, there's really so very much to enjoy. Give yourself a very special treat.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
By S. Kidd
Format: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.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Format:VHS Tape
Fight Club wasn't the first movie to take on consumer culture. Godard's last narrative film of the 1960s is a harsh, at times unenjoyable, but always radical and challenging tale of a society mad for money and indifferent to suffering. Turning the usual young-lovers-on-the-run plot used by Godard in Pierrot le Fou and hinted at in A Bout de Souffle, Le Week-End has two lovers who hate each other rushing to the countryside to fight over an inheritance. If the road in classic young lovers' tales - like the contemporaneous Bonnie and Clyde - symbolised freedom, here, cluttered up with wreckage, the road is just another part of a culture where anxieites are bottled up during the week, and let out at the weekend, with violent results. Trademark Godardian intertitles abound, and this film is about as didactic as it gets. Anti-Vietnam slogans may not be contemporaneous, but this film, as an indictment of the new world order, and of consumerism, is more modern than anything currently in cinemas. A classic that's hard to love.
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I read somewhere that Salvador Dali once said to some journalist: "Do you know why I am so rich? Because there are so many stupid people in the world!". This is the case with the most of J.L.Godard's "art" outcome (which though never comes even close to what the famous spanish artist did). While some of his earlier efforts (A Bout de Suffle, Mepris, Vivre Sa Vie, Bande a Part) were inovative, interesting and (the most important!) watchable, quite everything what he did after approx. 1966 is boringly pretentious, uninteresting and totally unwatchable crap.The same can be said about "Weekend". It's a poor leftist political masturbation mixed with foolish experimenting and cruel exploitation, having nothing to do with art.J.L.Godard should be the last one to complain about bourgeausie in the western world. His luck that he wasn't born in Maoist China or in Stalinist Russia. I think his political and artistical "bravery" would have been much more modest there, if any at all.
By mickey_one
Format:DVD
Weekend (J.-L. Godard), F 1967
When Corinne and Roland hit the road in their flashy Facel Vega to kill Corinne's parents (secretly planning to kill the other later) they run among others into an endless traffic jam and a guerilla to witness the end of civilization. Godard's last traditional movie until 1980 is a Cassandra against uninhibited materialism and future Pol Pots.
When Corinne and Roland hit the road in their flashy Facel Vega to kill Corinne's parents (secretly planning to kill the other later) they run among others into an endless traffic jam and a guerilla to witness the end of civilization. Godard's last traditional movie until 1980 is a Cassandra against uninhibited materialism and future Pol Pots.
By Alan Tucker
Format:DVD
Godard's most approachable and enjoyable film tells the hilarious story of how a Parisian couple spend their weekend. He uses conversation, voice-over - a young woman's half bored, half thrilled account of modern sex in a kitchen with a man whose wife then joins in. There is a suburban parking dispute, French farce style. which concludes with one of the men rushing back into his house, reappearing instantly with a shotgun. The long long obligatory drive into the country has the best and longest traffic jam ever filmed - unforgetably - the camera panning along the line: one family towing a sailing dinghy are putting up the sails. The film is a model of how to tell a story, how to switch from voice to visual slapstick, from reality to fantasy, from petty squabbles to revolutionary idiocy - from Sunday lunch to cannibalism. The whole film is a political parable. The closing surrealist posturing becomes a bit much, but if you haven't an interest in French films you wouldn't be reading this, and if you haven't seen the film, stop wondering, Buy it immediately! It is simply a classic with all faults.
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Oh Dear !
A film should first of all entertain, anything above and beyond that is a bonus. However if a film doesn't entertain, then as far as I'm concerned it's failed its prime directive. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Newman
1.0 out of 5 stars
As much pleasure as an actual car crash....
Despite having a cleverly conceived and infamous 8 minute continuous take of the traffic jam from hell, I simply find this film plain nasty. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Tim Kidner
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Alan's critique on Le Weekend- Jean-Luc Godard:
Alan's personal critique on Le Weekend- Jean-Luc Godard: Reality in art can never be unmediated, therefore like the Heisenberg's theory of quantum mechanics (the realization of the... Read more
Published on 20 May 2011 by Alan - The Redpath
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One of the most important films ever made -- Why no blu-ray?!!
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. Read more
It is truly incredible that no really good quality Blu-Ray is available. Read more
Published on 12 Sep 2010 by John Paul May
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Movie of Revolution
I think that the other commentators have failed to fully understand the movie. I believe that it is a metaphor for the collapse of bourgeois (capitalist) society and works by... Read more
Published on 24 Oct 2006 by donaloc
4.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining beginning becomes dwarfed by relentless polemic
'hmmmmm, now this is bizarre'. My thoughts exactly after watching this film. The non-existent conventions, the rambling monologues, the bitter and vitriolic characters, the... Read more
Published on 5 April 2006 by H. Feddern
3.0 out of 5 stars
Weird as Hell
After watching "Weekend" twice I can only conclude that this film is Godard's personal vision of Hell. Read more
Published on 24 Oct 2005 by L. Davidson
5.0 out of 5 stars
The end of Godard's classic-period...
While some of Jean-Luc Godard's films post-'Weekend' have some qualities- the ravishing-cinematography of 'Eloge de l'Amour' or the odd tracking-shot in 'Tout Va Bien' - they seem... Read more
Published on 19 May 2005 by Jason Parkes
3.0 out of 5 stars
Bourgeois backbiting wrapped up in a Marxist metaphor
This is a long way from A Woman is a Woman. Here, Godard freely mixes fantasy and reality in his typically idiosyncratic fashion to create a political horror film that sets out to... Read more
Published on 18 Mar 2005 by Jonathan James Romley
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Masterpiece!
Actually I'd like to correct some info on the runtime of this DVD. As krzysiektom pointed out, this version only runs 90 mins as stated on the cover of the dvd. Read more
Published on 12 Mar 2005
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