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DVD ~ Mireille Darc
4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne
  • Directors: Jean-Luc Godard
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Artificial Eye
  • DVD Release Date: 28 Feb 2005
  • Run Time: 90 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000AQVIR
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 25,579 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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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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 inheritance. Their trip is at first delayed, and later it is distracted by several outrageous events and characters including an apocalyptic traffic jam, a group of fictional philosophers, a couple of violent carjackers, and eventually, a gross display of cannibalism. By the time the film concludes, their seemingly simple journey has deteriorated into a freewheeling philosophical diatribe that leaves no topic unscathed. With WEEKEND, Jean-Luc Godard reaches an impressive plateau of film originality, incorporating inter-titles, extended tracking shots, and music to add an entirely new grammar to film language. The result is a deeply challenging work that will most certainly invigorate some viewers just as much as it will as frustrate others. Standout highlights include a jarring, sexually graphic opening monologue shot with a roaming camera and blaring musical accompaniment, and the infamous traffic jam scene, where an endless parade of cars sit bumper to bumper amidst burning cars, picnics, and honking horns. The work of a true artist and pioneer, Godard's WEEKEND is a landmark film that hasn't aged or lessened in impact over time.

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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Weekend, 1 Mar 2005
By S. Kidd "simonokiddo" (Guantanamo Bay Area) - See all my reviews
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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.

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8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Movie of Revolution, 24 Oct 2006
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 explaining what will come of that society under standard marxist analysis.
They begin their journey, self-absorbed, greedy, murderous, horrid. They go through the rat-race of traffic along the way. They end up getting robbed, losing their car crashing it and wandering lost. All hope of returning is gone. They end up arrested by the revolutionaries (the dictatorship of the proletariat), suffer cultural re-education (to the extent that the female character eats the male one). The role of the Algerian and African characters are important in that they represent the positivity of the third-world leadership which Jean Luc Godard revered so much. The movie is a very hard Maoist metaphor.
The movie itself is well shot, thought-provoking and harsh. It is meant to reflect the harshness of this world and the director's belief in how that system will be overthrown.
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14 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Weird as Hell, 25 Oct 2005
By L. Davidson (Belfast, N.Ireland) - See all my reviews
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After watching "Weekend" twice I can only conclude that this film is Godard's personal vision of Hell. Nothing makes sense, there is no love or kindness in the film as one surreal and absurd scene follows the other against a background of burning vehicles, grotesque violence, incongruous music and nonsensical pseudo-philosophical rants. One interpretation of "Weekend" could be that it is simply a parody of French bourgois attitudes and values; its materialism, arrogance and indifference to others are subliminally lampooned throughout the film by Godard as a cast of class warriors, wandering philosophers, car-jackers and cannibal guerrillas expose the vapidity of the consumerist ideal. But to view this film merely as a subversive piece of anarcho/marxist agit-prop is a somewhat tenuous proposition ,as the essential absurdity of the film overwhelms any coherent theme or message that could be drawn from it. Which leads me back to my initial conclusion that "Weekend" must be Godard's imagining of Hell; non-sense, random violence , surreal encounters, illogical actions. "Weekend" is a difficult and challenging film,not particularly entertaining, but most certainly thought-provoking and inventive.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Note Godard's title
Godard's most approachable and enjoyable film tells the hilarious story of how a Parisian couple spend their weekend. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Alan Tucker

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

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... 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... Read more
Published on 18 Mar 2005 by Jonathan James Romley

5.0 out of 5 stars 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 13 Mar 2005

4.0 out of 5 stars A shortened version of an amazing film
This film is amazing and should be seen or owned by every film buff; but I wonder: if I saw a US review of a 103-minute version of this movie and this one has only 90 minutes,... Read more
Published on 8 Mar 2005 by K. Tomkowski

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