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Weekend (Godard)

Genres: Foreign, Satire, Comedy, 60s, Foreign Comedy, French Cinema, Criterion Collection

Cast: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Synopsis: This scathing late-sixties satire from Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless) 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 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.

Language: French

Country of Origin: France

Production Year: 1967

Reviews:

  • "It changed the course of film history... Unrelenting, consistently inventive.", J. Hoberman, The Village Voice
  • "Superb! A fliply comic scorched-earth rejection of allure and gloss of modern life.", Richard Brody, The New Yorker

Weekend (Godard)

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  • Release Date: Nov 13th, 2012
  • Catalog Number: CC2206DDVD
  • UPC: 715515101417
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 104
  • Color Format: Color
  • Audio: PCM Mono
  • Language: French
  • 16:9: No
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Closed Captions: No
  • Subtitle: English
  • Special Features:
    • New, restored high-definition digital transfer

    • New video essay by film critic Kent Jones

    • Archival interviews with actors Mireille Darc and Jean Yanne

    • Excerpt from a French television program on director Jean-Luc Godard

    • Trailers

    • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic and novelist Gary Indiana

  • Release Date: Nov 13th, 2012
  • Catalog Number: CC2205BD
  • UPC: 715515101318
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 104
  • Color Format: Color
  • Audio: PCM Mono
  • Language: French
  • 16:9: Yes
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Closed Captions: No
  • Subtitle: English
  • Special Features:
    • New, restored high-definition digital transfer

    • New video essay by film critic Kent Jones

    • Archival interviews with actors Mireille Darc and Jean Yanne

    • Excerpt from a French television program on director Jean-Luc Godard

    • Trailers

    • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic and novelist Gary Indiana