Weekend

1967

1h 43m

Comedy

Drama

List

93%

Tomatometer

28 Reviews

78%

Audience Score

5,000+ Ratings

Roland Durand (Jean Yanne) and his wife Corinne (Mireille Darc) embark on a weekend getaway to the French countryside. Each is contemplating adultery as they head for the coast, but end up ensnared in a traffic jam along the way. Hilarity ensues in this absurdist romp as it devolves into all manners of human folly and destruction, and the fated couple encounters such colorful characters as the leader of the FLSO (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) and Saint-Just (Jean-Pierre Léaud).

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Critics Consensus

Jean-Luc Godard fixes his considerable ire against French society and the broader human condition in the morbidly funny Weekend, an abstract road trip to damnation that finds the enfant terrible in peak form.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

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.

Rated: 4/4

Jul 3, 2018

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Keith Uhlich

Time Out

As long as cinema like this exists, there's no end in sight.

Rated: 4/5

Oct 5, 2011

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J. Hoberman

Village Voice

This apocalyptic farce-Alice in Wonderland as reconceived by the Marquis de Sade-would mark both the high point and the end of Godard's meteoric career as a popular artist.

Oct 4, 2011

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Cory Woodroof

615 Film

Gives “eat the rich” an even deeper meaning.

Jun 15, 2022

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Michael Kostelnuk

Winnipeg Free Press

If you want a movie that can actually make cleansing comic fodder out of our society's destructive bent, Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove makes Weekend's satire look like the undisciplined posturing it really is.

Aug 18, 2021

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Gene Youngblood

Los Angeles Free Press

A revolutionary breakthrough in natrative cinema.

Jan 25, 2020

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michale j

So bad it becomes mesmerizing; nearly hypnotic.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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William L

Godard tries to be Jacques Tati, except angrier, stranger, and less subtle. Bringing a higher budget doesn't mean that you automatically make a film particularly insightful. It's a grab bag of randomness pretending to be targeted surrealism, paired with attempts at philosophy, geopolitics, and criticisms of consumerism; in other words, its Godard preening himself in front of a mirror. A woman standing next to a firey pileup, loudly wailing over the fate of her Hermes handbag instead of the human toll of the accident; how creative and sharp. With an endless stream of car crashes and fake blood, Weekend feels like its strangeness is simply for the sake of strangeness or an imitation of other films rather than anything more substantial. Along with Alphaville, Weekend is really forcing me to question whether or not Godard is more than a recognizable name that lucked into some early successes before falling in love with the idea of himself that contemporary critics developed. (1.5/5)

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

07/22/21

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Gaurav V

Funny, witty, and thought provoking. Goddard at his best!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/22/21

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Audience Member

Honestly I am torn between 2.5 to 3 stars so I'll go with 2.5 for now... I genuinely enjoyed most of this movie I like those kind of things but it was definitely 30 minutes too long and at some point I was just dying for it to end. This was not helped by the fact that I think the ending kinda takes away from most of the movie and I would've liked it way more without those hippies cannibals revolutionaries

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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Fra B

It's an escalation of absurdity and Godard annex to it a darkly humorous satire, a social criticism and a meta commentary on cinema (or art, in general) and especially on how people react to it, but do not expect it to be intellectual or clear: it's a grotesque travel whose first intent is to alienate the viewers, and god, if it's alienating!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

05/07/21

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Audience Member

A monument of cinema.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/16/23

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Jean-Luc Godard

Director

Mireille Darc

Corinne Durand

Jean Yanne

Roland Durand

Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Le chef du Front de Libération de la Seine et Oise

Valerie Lagrange

La femme du chef du FLSO

Paul Gégauff

Le pianiste

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Synopsis

Roland Durand (Jean Yanne) and his wife Corinne (Mireille Darc) embark on a weekend getaway to the French countryside. Each is contemplating adultery as they head for the coast, but end up ensnared in a traffic jam along the way. Hilarity ensues in this absurdist romp as it devolves into all manners of human folly and destruction, and the fated couple encounters such colorful characters as the leader of the FLSO (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) and Saint-Just (Jean-Pierre Léaud).

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Production Co: Comacico
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: French (Canada)
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 15, 2020
Runtime: 1h 43m
Sound Mix: Stereo

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