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Week end (Weekend)

STATUS: Released

Week end (Weekend)

  • 1967
  • France
  • Fiction
  • French
  • 104 mins
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This scathing late-sixties satire from Jean-Luc Godard is one of cinema’s great anarchic works. Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring a justly famous sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingly endless traffic jam, and rich with historical and literary references, Weekend is a surreally funny and disturbing call for revolution, a depiction of society reverting to savagery, and— according to the credits—the end of cinema itself.

Credits

Director
Jean-Luc Godard
Writer
Jean-Luc Godard
Producer
Raymond Danon

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