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"Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a middle class couple take a weekend trip and get caught up in an armed liberation struggle. A sarcastic portrait of France in 1967."
"A middle class couple on a weekend trip get caught up in an armed liberation struggle. A sarcastic portrait of France in 1967."
"Fiction. Comédie satirique. Un couple cupide et en brouille constante part la fin de semaine à la campagne pour toucher un héritage. En route, ils sont pris dans un embouteillage monstre avec d'autres automobilistes impatients et gueulards. Ils voient des collisions et des automobiles en feu. Continuant leur route à pied, ils arrivent à destination, tuent l'aïeule qui refusait de partager l'héritage. A leur retour vers la ville, ils sont capturés par une bande de jeunes révolutionnaires cannibales."
"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 centerpiece sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingly endless traffic jam, and rich with historical and literary references, is a surreally funny and disturbing call for revolution, a depiction of society retreating to savagery, and, according to the credits, the end of cinema itself."
""[Weekend] follows a bickering, scheming bourgeois couple who 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 he 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" -- Container."
"A young Parisian couple, Corinne and Roland, visit the former's mother in order to try to wrangle some money out of her. On the roads they encounter nothing but violence and anarchy, and on their arrival, the old woman refuses to cough up. They murder her and set off homewards, only to be captured by a group of cannibalistic revolutionaries - the Seine-et-Oise Liberation--"
"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."
"A one night stand develops into a weekend-long idyll for two very different young men in Midlands, England in an emotionally naked film that's both an invaluable snapshot of the complexities of contemporary gay living, and a universally identifiable portrait of a love affair. Includes bonus features."
""Despite their often-expressed intention to kill one another, a shamelessly greedy Parisian couple, Corinne and Roland, set out for a ritual weekend visit to her parents' home in the country. Enroute, the scheming bourgeois couple encounter an appallingly funny progression of traffic jams, burning cars, and cannibalistic revolutionaries. One of the key films of the French New Wave, this frequently outrageous work mixes sex, slapstick, violence, and political rhetoric to create an epic vision of the decline and fall of consumer society as it destroys itself in auto wrecks"--container.DVD."
"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."
"A middle class couple on a weekend trip gets caught up in an armed liberation struggle. A sarcastic portrait of France in 1967."
""A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations." IMDB."
""El matrimonio Durand, formado por los burgueses Roland (Jean Yanne) y Corinne (Mireille Darc) sale de fin de semana con destino a su casa de campo. A lo largo del trayecto por carretera en coche sufrirán un enorme embotellamiento debido a una serie de aparatosos accidentes. Durante la terrible espera vivirán un conjunto de experiencias desconcertantes..."-- Estuche."
"Fiction. Étude de moeurs. Film satirique sur la civilisation moderne. Un couple cupide et en brouille constante part la fin de semaine à la campagne pour toucher un héritage. En route, ils sont pris dans un embouteillage monstre avec d'autres automobilistes impatients, gueulards ; voient des collisions, des automobiles en feu. Continuant leur route à pied, ils arrivent à destination, tuent l'aïeule qui refusait de partager l'héritage. A leur retour vers la ville, ils sont capturés par une bande de jeunes révolutionnaires cannibales. Avec Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Léaud."
"A conservative couple on their way to a relaxing weekend in the country, become radicals during the course of a traffic jam."
"A young couple on a weekend jaunt travel through a nightmare landscape and encounter a band of hippie guerillas living by murder, pillage and rape. The theme in this comedy of horror is the brutalisation of contemporary capitalist society. Godard uses a range of anti-illusionist devices in what amounts to a modernist open text which denies the viewer the step by step progression to 'knowledge' leaving her free to 'roam' for meaning. The film has been defended as a radical critique of the role of spectacle in entertainment to be read in conjunction with Godard's other work, particularly La Chinoise, as Macbean argues and has been questioned by Wood as a failed attempt at deconstruction of narrative illusion, masking Godard's real fascination with violence and sexuality. Or it can be seen, as Pual Kelly sees it, simply as visionary satire impeded at times by ideological rhetoric."
"A virtuoso treatment of the modern world's apocalypse, seen through the eyes of a greedy Parisian couple as they head into the country for a weekend."
"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 centerpiece 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 retreating to savagery, and, according to the credits, the end of cinema itself."
"Un couple, Corinne et Rolland, se rend à la campagne en fin de semaine dans l'espoir de toucher un héritage. En route, ils sont retardés par un embouteillage et finissent par être impliqués eux-mêmes dans une collision oû leur voiture est détruite. Ils continuent leur route à pied et font d'étrangews rencontres. Parvenus à destination, ils tuent la mère de Corinne qui refuse de partager l'héritage. Sur le chemin du retour, Corinne et Rolland sont capturés par une bande de jeunes qui vivent..."
""Despite their often-expressed intention to kill one another, a shamelessly greedy Parisian couple, Corinne and Roland, set out for a ritual weekend visit to her parents' home in the country. Enroute, the scheming bourgeois couple encounter an appallingly funny progression of traffic jams, burning cars, and cannibalistic revolutionaries. One of the key films of the French New Wave, this frequently outrageous work mixes sex, slapstick, violence, and political rhetoric to create an epic vision of the decline and fall of consumer society as it destroys itself in auto wrecks"--Container."
"The violence and materialistic values of modern capitalistic society are attacked by Jean-Luc Godard as he follows a young French bourgeois couple on a nightmarish motoring weekend across the French countryside. The disintegration of society is seen symbolically as a holocaust of corpses and burning cars."
"Un couple de petits bourgeois part en week-end dans sa maison de campagne. Sur la route, c'est l'enfer qui commence : embouteillages interminables, accidents épouvantables, sirènes d'ambulances... Bloqués au milieu de cette aventure cauchemardesque, ils y feront des rencontres déconcertantes... Une dénonciation virulente et apocalyptique de la bourgeoisie et de la société de consommation..."
"In this highly stylised fable, told in Jean-Luc Godard's inimitable, unique style, a weekend trip from Paris to Normandy turns into an automobile apocalypse and a shattering metaphor for the decline of the West."
"Un couple part en week-end et, coincé dans les embouteillages, fait d'étranges rencontres... Une dénonciation virulente et apocalyptique de la bourgeoisie et de la société de consommation..."
""[Weekend] follows a bickering, scheming bourgeois couple who 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 he 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" -- Container."
"Un couple cupide et en brouille constante part la fin de semaine à la campagne pour toucher un héritage. En route, ils sont pris dans un embouteillage monstre avec d'autres automobilistes impatients et gueulards. Ils voient des collisions et des automobiles en feu. Continuant leur route à pied, ils arrivent à destination, tuent l'aïeule qui refusait de partager l'héritage. A leur retour vers la ville, ils sont capturés par une bande de jeunes révolutionnaires cannibales. Avec Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Léaud."
"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 centerpiece sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingly endless traffic jam, and rich with historical and literary references, is a surreally funny and disturbing call for revolution, a depiction of society retreating to savagery, and, according to the credits, the end of cinema itself."
"Corinne e Roland, coppia di borghesi, partono in auto per il week-end. Incappano in lunghe code, sanguinosi incidenti, strani incontri prima di essere catturati dal Fronte di Liberazione di Seine-et-Oise."@it
"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."