#635: GODARD, Jean-Luc: Weekend (1967)
GODARD, Jean-Luc (France)
Weekend [1967]
Spine #635
Blu-ray
Blu-ray
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.
104 minutes
Color
Color
Monaural
in French
1:66:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2012
Not to be confused with another film with the same title: #622
Director/Writer
Jean-Luc Godard was 37 when he wrote and directed Weekend.
The Film
Other Godard films in the Collection:
#408: Breathless (1960)
#238: A Woman Is A Woman (1961)
#512: Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
#171: Contempt (1963)
#1010: Le Petit Soldat (1963)
#174: Band Of Outsiders (1964)
#25: Alphaville (1965)
#421: Pierrot Le Fou (1965)
#308: Masculin Féminin (1966)
#408: Breathless (1960)
#238: A Woman Is A Woman (1961)
#512: Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
#171: Contempt (1963)
#1010: Le Petit Soldat (1963)
#174: Band Of Outsiders (1964)
#25: Alphaville (1965)
#421: Pierrot Le Fou (1965)
#308: Masculin Féminin (1966)
#481: Made In U.S.A. (1966)
#482: 2 Or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)
#744: Every Man For Himself (1980)
#482: 2 Or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)
#744: Every Man For Himself (1980)
The Film
Film Rating (0-60):
The Booklet
Forty-four page booklet featuring an essay by critic and novelist Gary Indiana, selections from Alain Bergala’s book Godard au travail: Les années 60, and an excerpt from a 1969 interview with Godard.
Commentary
None.
Archival interviews
With actors Darc and Yanne, cinematographer Raoul Coutard, and assistant director Claude Miller.
Excerpt
From a French television program on director Godard, featuring on-set footage from Weekend shot by filmmaker Philippe Garrel.
Trailers
Extras Rating (0-40):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Forty-four page booklet featuring an essay by critic and novelist Gary Indiana, selections from Alain Bergala’s book Godard au travail: Les années 60, and an excerpt from a 1969 interview with Godard.
Commentary
None.
Archival interviews
With actors Darc and Yanne, cinematographer Raoul Coutard, and assistant director Claude Miller.
Excerpt
From a French television program on director Godard, featuring on-set footage from Weekend shot by filmmaker Philippe Garrel.
Trailers
Extras Rating (0-40):
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