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Weekend( 1967)

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Overview

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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Mireille Darc

      Corinne Durand

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      Jean Yanne

      Roland Durand

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      Jean-Pierre Kalfon

      Le Chef du Front de Libération de la Seine et Oise

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      Yves Afonso

      Gros Poucet (uncredited)

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      Yves Beneyton

      Un Membre du FLSO (uncredited)

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      Juliet Berto

      Une Activiste du FLSO / Jeune Bourgeoise Accidentée (uncredited)

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      Michèle Breton

      Girl in the Woods (uncredited)

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      Michel Cournot

      Man From Farmyard (uncredited)

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      Lex De Bruijn

      Revolutionary (uncredited)

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      Omar Diop

      Mon Frère Africain (uncredited)

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      Jean Eustache

      L'Auto-Stoppeur (uncredited)

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      Jean-Claude Guilbert

      Le Clochard (uncredited)

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      Paul Gégauff

      Le Pianiste (uncredited)

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      Blandine Jeanson

      Emily Bronte (uncredited)

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      Louis Jojot

      Monsieur Jojot (uncredited)

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      Valérie Lagrange

      La Femme du Chef du FLSO (uncredited)

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      Jean-Pierre Léaud

      Saint-Just / Le Jeune Minet du 16ème (uncredited)

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      Ernest Menzer

      Ernest - le Cuisinier / Le Boucher du FLSO (uncredited)

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      Daniel Pommereulle

      Joseph Balsamo (uncredited)

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      Isabelle Pons

      (uncredited)

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      Helen Scott

      Woman in Car (uncredited)

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      Georges Staquet

      Le Conducteur du Tracteur (uncredited)

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      László Szabó

      L'Arabe (uncredited)

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      Virginie Vignon

      Marie-Madeleine (uncredited)

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      Anne Wiazemsky

      Une Fille à la Ferme (uncredited)

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    A review by CRCulver

    10
    Written by CRCulver on Sun May 27 2018
    As the 1960s went on Jean-Luc Godard kept up the kind of brash, zany, experimental style with which he made his name and became a cornerstone of the French New Wave, but his work increasingly showed a political consciousness sparked by the explosion of the consumer society in that decade. The class of haves, in his view, were being increasingly selfish and dog-eat-dog, while the have-nots of the world could not be expected to stand by idly. Society was surely headed for a breakdown, and his 1967 film WEEKEND is an absurdist vision of it in one hour and forty-five minutes. This is emphatically *...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Revenue

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    Keywords

    • surrealism
    • man woman relationship
    • traffic jam