Week-end (1967)

	Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard	COUNTRY France/Italy GENRE Absurdist black comedy INTERNATIONAL TITLE Weekend RUNNING TIME 105 minutes
	Produced by: Raymond Danon
	Written by: Jean-Luc Godard

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Corinne	Mireille Darc	½
Roland	Jean Yanne	½
Leader of FLSO	Jean-Pierre Kalfon	½
His Moll	Valerie Lagrange	½
Saint-Just/Man in Phone Booth	Jean-Pierre Léaud	½
Member of FLSO	Yves Beneyton	½

Review

Jean-Luc Godard takes us on an absurdist road movie through a postmodern, apocalyptic rural France ravaged by endless traffic jams, road accidents, and ritualistic violence, all accompanied by various philosophical and political discussions and monologues. It's illusory, at times agitative, at times senseless – and all the while enormously ambitious. Whether or not you'll care for the film's academic ramblings and jabs at everyone from the established bourgeoisie to raving revolutionary hippies will arguably be a matter of personal taste. However, there's no denying the boldness of Godard's vision or his most iconic images here, not least an 8-minute uninterrupted segment of a traffic queue. Week-end stands as one of Godard's more notable fusions of Marxist theory, Brechtian provocation, and pop iconography.