Weekend (1967)
- 7.2
- 103 mins
- Comedy, Drama
Storyline
A supposedly-idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into an endless nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism, and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.—Michael Brooke
Plot Keywords
surrealism, satire, car crash, black comedy, nihilism, violence, long take, experimental film, fire, car accident, traffic jam, murder, terrorism, cannibalism, rabbit, orgy, female nudity, misanthropy, hell, avant garde
Short Review
Year after year, Jean-Luc Godard has been chipping away at the language of cinema. Now, in Weekend, he has just about got down to the bare bones. This is his best film, and his most inventive. It is almost pure movie.
Trailer
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