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Week End

1967
Comedy
Drama
1h 45m
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.
Directed by:
Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Luc Godard
Written by:
Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Luc Godard
Starring:
Anne Wiazemsky Anne Wiazemsky Jean Yanne Jean Yanne Jean-Pierre Léaud Jean-Pierre Léaud Michèle Breton Mireille Darc Jean-Pierre Kalfon Yves Beneyton Paul Gégauff Juliet Berto Juliet Berto Jean Eustache Jean Eustache Yves Afonso Michel Cournot
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Genres:
Comedy, Drama
AKA:
Weekend, Week-End
Countries:
France, Italy
Language:
French
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Week End

1967
Comedy
Drama
1h 45m
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martintellerMartinTeller
Rated 17 Jan 2007
66
28th
It's not that I feel it's over my head (though maybe it is), I just can't make myself care. At heart I have to admit I watch movies for entertainment or emotional stimulation. I don't want people reading philosophy to me and all this didactic preachery. I don't mind being challenged from time to time, but I don't want to be part of whatever revolution you're selling. I did enjoy the general spirit of the film, however, and the references to Bunuel.
Rated 17 Jan 2007
pickpocketPickpocket
Rated 04 Dec 2008
3
28th
Disappointing. Godard couldn't decide what to do in this one. It just becomes a mess and is really hard to sit through. Looks really bad compared to his other movies but that 10 minute tracking shot is one of the most incredible shots ever.
Rated 04 Dec 2008
kasperlKasperL
Rated 27 Nov 2010
40
19th
I do understand that Godard's film is an "open text" preoccupied with politics and with reinventing film language but it's such an exhausting watch. It does have some incredible elements (e.g. highway long take). Ultimately, though, it's way too uneven, often being thoroughly annoying.
Rated 27 Nov 2010
anomalyAnomaly
Rated 19 Jan 2011
61
31st
Some great scenes at the beginning (like the long take), and a few interesting ones throughout, interspersed with boring and pointless scenes and an extremely drawn out and torturous ending. There's valid points about society and capitalism in here but they're done in such a boring fashion it's hard to care. It may succeed at being a political text and playing with film conventions, but that's kind of counterproductive towards enjoyment.
Rated 19 Jan 2011
magbMagb
Rated 30 Jan 2007
70
39th
Intriguingly cynical, and fillled with awesome tracking shots and many hilarious scenes, but it got far too preachy toward the end. I think I can more or less grasp what Godard is trying to say, but the problem is I'm just not very interested in any of it. If I were, I bet I'd worship Week End as one of the all-time greatest political films made. But since I'm not, I don't.
Rated 30 Jan 2007
peaceanarchyPeaceAnarchy
Rated 05 Apr 2008
84
77th
Godard goes off the deep end and takes us along for the ride. It's violent, preachy, absurdist, playful, cynical and a whole lot of other things, some of which work, some of which don't but all of which are at least interesting on some level. I found it a lot of fun even though some parts felt bogged down and while I'm not sure I'd say it's a good film it's definitely unique enough to be worth watching.
Rated 05 Apr 2008
burnmp3sburnmp3s
Rated 14 Nov 2009
76
56th
Memorable but uneven. Some scenes are beautiful in a bizarre and interesting way, and some of the scenes are just boring or unnecessary. There's not much of a plot, it's hard to really care about any of the characters or strange events of the film, and the overt political elements at the end seem out of place in the context of such a nihilistic overall film.
Rated 14 Nov 2009
peppersteakPeppersteak
Rated 14 Aug 2007
100
95th
Jean-Luc Godard's official kiss-off the the New Wave in favor of film as an instrument for political revolution. His most violent and infamous work and an important film.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
backwardsuitbackwardsuit
Rated 14 Aug 2019
67
38th
Attempt to cure my irrational prejudice against Godard achieved partial success. It's interesting & formally impressive how the film combines political/philosophical discourse to playful farce with an experimental structure that comments on itself. The fact that its various elements exist in constant self-conscious contradiction & conflict with each other is probably the point, a sporadically amusing but rather tedious & disengaging one. Especially since the avant-garde isn't so avant anymore.
Rated 14 Aug 2019
bownBown
Rated 06 Nov 2009
93
97th
A beautiful mess of comedy, anger, and radical thinking.
Rated 06 Nov 2009
wokelsteinwokelstein
Rated 20 Mar 2011
98
97th
I genuinely love Godard's films, but they certainly embody everything we hate about the French. They tend to be rather unrelently intellectualized and smug. The work of somebody who would rather be right than initiate any meaningful introspection much less incite anyone to action. Alas, Godard's flaws and virtues are unlike anyone elses and his particular brand of misanthropy is honed to a fine sharp point in Week End. For better or worse, this is the definitive Godard film for me.
Rated 20 Mar 2011
pppattypppatty
Rated 11 May 2008
35
9th
incredibly over-rated
Rated 11 May 2008
billyshearsBillyShears
Rated 14 Apr 2009
65
42nd
I liked the long take on the highway and that's about it. I think there was a tit in it, I dont know why I gave this the score I did, seems to generous ... I swore I saw a titty. Booooobies.
Rated 14 Apr 2009
luxnatalisLuxNatalis
Rated 05 Nov 2014
5
1st
I can hear the critics shouting.. 'How can you rate this a 5? This is Godard!'... Well yes, this is fuckin Godard but it was truly atrocious. I can still hear those fucking horns buzzin in my head for two days and not letting me sleep. If you want Godard, go watch 'Breathless' instead which is a great film and stay away from this vexatious trash for your own good.
Rated 05 Nov 2014
hehejajahehejaja
Rated 01 May 2008
60
39th
There are moments here of enormous beauty, potency and wit. But many of the things Godard seemingly want to express seem to drown in all the absurdity and surrealism on display.
Rated 01 May 2008
faultfinderFaultFinder
Rated 20 Jun 2009
50
9th
So goddamn pretentious and full of itself that Goddard forgot he was making a film and instead decided to ejaculate on 2 hrs worth of celluloid.
Rated 20 Jun 2009
closedmouthclosedmouth
Rated 11 Oct 2010
60
20th
Godard is such a skilled filmmaker, it's such a shame he thinks postmodern surrealism has any value. This film has not aged well.
Rated 11 Oct 2010
zayankZayanK
Rated 16 Dec 2011
67
33rd
Yawn.
Rated 16 Dec 2011
roujinroujin
Rated 30 Jun 2007
60
55th
Wooo! Anarchy! Politics!! Blah! It's boring, people. BORING!!! 2nd Viewing: Okay, maybe not.
Rated 30 Jun 2007
redflagredflag
Rated 16 Jan 2018
85
28th
The Godard problem. Beautiful, challenging parts that don't add up to a whole that often feels misanthropic and hateful towards the audience, which the material does not merit, accomplishing net zero. Want a critique of capital? Watch La Batalla de Chile. That said, there are some very, very good parts.
Rated 16 Jan 2018
frankhowleyFrankHowley
Rated 08 Apr 2011
55
19th
Has some really cool sequence shots. Devolves into total insanity at the end, but not in a good way.
Rated 08 Apr 2011
jargonscottjargonscott
Rated 14 Aug 2007
57
40th
A decent enough watch, but nowhere near as accessible or enjoyable as Godard's masterpiece, 'A Bout De Souffle' (Breathless)!
Rated 14 Aug 2007
bofbof
Rated 18 Nov 2011
41
16th
"What a rotten film. All we meet are crazy people." So this was what Monty Python were sending up in the French subitled film sketch - and rather accurately at that. Weird film, indeed - constantly commenting on itself as it sends its two protagonists on a trip through the wreck of Western (or rather French) civilization. Occasionally very disturbing, occasionally just preachy and self-defeating, an interesting piece of cinema.
Rated 18 Nov 2011
uiterwaardeuiterwaarde
Rated 25 Apr 2012
95
98th
I think I'll be revisiting this film soon, it's filled with ideas, which makes it rather overwhelming and hard to swallow on a late night. On the other hand, the photography in this film is definitely on par with the best of his previous work, and some scenes are just endlessly fascinating. I also loved his subtle approach towards surrealism here, I'm pretty certain Charlie Kaufman was influenced by it, or at least his style is comparable on many levels.
Rated 25 Apr 2012
rufamRufam
Rated 18 May 2014
50
14th
A piece of heavy-handed propaganda told in bold colors (mostly red), surrealistic craze and typical Godard smugness. The visual style, the Bunuelisms, the surprisingly macabre humor -these are enjoyable elements in a film that otherwise gets bogged down by endless philosophizing in forests. I can't say that Godard's savage message about the bourgeois is without impact but, as in many of his films, he fails to come up with an engaging plot or atmosphere to support it.
Rated 18 May 2014
joojooJooJoo
Rated 02 Aug 2010
5
80th
Madness. I wish Godard didn't feel the need to spend one of his litanies explaining exactly what this film is setting out to do - that sucked. The rest is fairly good (for Godard, at least).
Rated 02 Aug 2010
ronthedogronthedog
Rated 15 Feb 2016
91
96th
Brash, trashy and brilliant satire. Would prefer not to have liked this but it's just too good.
Rated 15 Feb 2016
camcleodCAMcleod
Rated 04 Dec 2011
0
2nd
Shit.
Rated 04 Dec 2011
neonmanNeonman
Rated 12 Aug 2019
83
73rd
Finally, a Godard film that actually hates its despicable characters ... and finally, a reminder of what experimental films are actually like. Creating a post-apocalyptic world inside the modern world, Week End is empathetically frustrating, each of our two leads keep encountering ludicrous obstacles on their way to immorally get some inheritance. This is the kind of world I wish to observe, but not be a part of.
Rated 12 Aug 2019
venicevenice
Rated 21 Sep 2010
90
91st
I'd love to watch it every weekend.
Rated 21 Sep 2010
sebbysebby
Rated 04 Sep 2011
50
27th
There are some absolutely wonderful tracking shots that make the film worth seeing, but the politics are a total fucking bore and waste of my time.
Rated 04 Sep 2011
inhmninhmn
Rated 12 Jan 2009
99
92nd
x_x
Rated 12 Jan 2009
wetwillieswetwillies
Rated 16 Oct 2011
80
37th
Brash, repulsive, masturbatory and occasionally genius.
Rated 16 Oct 2011
broelectorBroelector
Rated 31 Jul 2016
90
82nd
This movie is something special. It's frantic and hilarious. It's mean and truthful. It starts at 100 and it only slows down to explain the class struggle between the working class and the rich. Then it speeds up to make you feel bad and all the while it is basking in everything. It's relentless and a movie where you can see why Godard is regarded as such an influential film maker.
Rated 31 Jul 2016
theyshoot07theyshoot07
Rated 01 Mar 2008
90
84th
# 199
Rated 01 Mar 2008
manhattaManhatta
Rated 30 Dec 2007
97
92nd
I've never seen another film go off-rails in such a spectacular fashion.
Rated 30 Dec 2007
henrikHenrik
Rated 06 Apr 2012
80
80th
Collapse of bourgeois society..."My Hermès handbag!!!" I found it quite funny.
Rated 06 Apr 2012
nepetaNepeta
Rated 03 Feb 2013
85
80th
Wooooooah... A messy cocktail of ideas, opinions, humour and art that is at times hilarious, oddly emotionally potent, thrilling, tedious, containing moments of remarkable clarity and profundity, enraging, beautiful, ugly, playful, nasty, fascinating and entirely provocative. A bit of me is unsure of what to make of it and what to feel about it but that's probably part of the appeal: it's a film where I don't mind being confused and lost for all of the runtime. It's certainly striking and bold.
Rated 03 Feb 2013
kahKAH
Rated 30 Sep 2009
2
40th
Godard has a lot on his mind in this raging film, perhaps a bit too much. Fascinating though.
Rated 30 Sep 2009
dewritedewrite
Rated 27 Apr 2015
82
45th
Odd and quirky, with plenty of existential darkness. I'm glad I saw a couple of Godard's other works before diving into this one.
Rated 27 Apr 2015
maM_A
Rated 31 Mar 2011
83
86th
A blistering film that presents some of Godard's political views to the audience in audacious ways.
Rated 31 Mar 2011
twincinematwincinema
Rated 04 Sep 2022
60
35th
If you liked Breathless and think you could watch more Godard, oh baby, wait until you see this. When people get angry about Godard, this is the film they are referencing.
Rated 04 Sep 2022
ag0stomesmerAg0stoMesmer
Rated 01 Aug 2012
3
73rd
[Distant] '60s Alice in politics-land. A couple of powerful scenes; that tracking shot and the baguette scoffing. It just gets weirder without getting deeper though.
Rated 01 Aug 2012
noam_razNoam Raz
Rated 07 Mar 2014
23
16th
The French kingdom of the bizarre and inexplicable.
Rated 07 Mar 2014
ceekay19Ceekay19
Rated 09 Dec 2018
50
10th
Roland: "What a rotten film. All we meet are crazy people."
Rated 09 Dec 2018
gokcanzgokcanz
Rated 27 Oct 2013
46
16th
* Casting, Acting : 5 * Script : 4 * Directing, Aura : 6 * Ease of Viewing : 3.5 * Naked Eye : 4.5
Rated 27 Oct 2013
theyshoot08theyshoot08
Rated 19 Dec 2008
89
78th
229
Rated 19 Dec 2008
djrossdjross
Rated 14 Aug 2007
80
91st
Score based on distant memory.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
kebapcheKebapche
Rated 12 Feb 2011
50
10th
Pretentious insanity.
Rated 12 Feb 2011
stainStain
Rated 13 Apr 2007
0
8th
It turns out that Godard doesn't just hate his audience, but he's a Commie as well. Eeyuck
Rated 13 Apr 2007
madmanMadMan
Rated 07 Dec 2020
65
15th
Ignore the rating as I have no idea what to rate it. Parts are great, other parts are a mess, and the film seems to be all over the place.
Rated 07 Dec 2020
hazelhawkshazelhawks
Rated 04 Mar 2022
75
75th
Grotesque allegory needed more Jean-Pierre Leaud. Double featured with Last Holiday.
Rated 04 Mar 2022
glm01glm01
Rated 18 Sep 2013
83
75th
83.000
Rated 18 Sep 2013
fuzzleshnopsfuzzleshnops
Rated 24 Aug 2018
30
14th
nope
Rated 24 Aug 2018
spikycactusSpikyCactus
Rated 27 Dec 2021
65
29th
Top badass moment? Call that a traffic jam? You got thicker jam in the old Tesco Value mixed fruit range and that was like coloured water. Maybe I shouldn't have slept through most of this film, as it ended up as little more than a shambles of middle-class people shouting, shooting guns, playing the drums, burning stuff, pointlessly sounding their car horns, talking about hippos and hitting pigs with sledgehammers. France is a car crash of a place. No cats, chainsaws or decapitations.
Rated 27 Dec 2021
nathan_sNathan S
Rated 03 Aug 2020
4
74th
For as much as this film explicitly references Bunuel and Fellini, its microcosmic allegory of a crumbling society also reminds me of (and precedes) Night of the Living Dead. It is positively wacky. The humor is dark and the set pieces are outrageous. Only in the final act does it begin to try my patience, as Godard's exploratory and scattershot spiels tend to do, but in general this is an entertaining evisceration of bourgeois attitudes.
Rated 03 Aug 2020
nathanbatesNathanBates
Rated 09 Oct 2022
60
35th
A tip of the beret to Godard, one of the few who could take a movie having car wrecks and a murderous couple and turn it into a tiresome polemic.
Rated 09 Oct 2022
hulothulot
Rated 22 Feb 2013
100
96th
watched: 2013, 2014
Rated 22 Feb 2013
kafka1325kafka1325
Rated 24 Nov 2013
50
30th
Movie how it goes to end it becomes tiresomely to watch. Some movies whatever hard you try to watch with the eyes when is make it doesn't work. Overrated only because is Godard...
Rated 24 Nov 2013
lisa_iilisa-
Rated 05 Jun 2014
5
70th
godard notes the inherent misunderstanding and chaos of relationships between people and groups of people, and animates it on screen with a bit of wacky exaggeration. but it's more than that: evidently, with some long speeches, he's very concerned by class conflict and the quandry of revolutionary action. all of this makes sense, as it coincides with his increasing interest in communism (and perhaps specifically maoism) but i'm less assured by his splattered analyses. preferred the first parts.
Rated 05 Jun 2014
sveneriksvenerik
Rated 22 Oct 2009
85
78th
Many people walked out when I watched this on an Iowa college campus years ago. I stayed and witnessed an unforgettable if disgusting film.
Rated 22 Oct 2009
drrobertdr_Robert
Rated 26 Feb 2017
3
40th
Absurditeterna avlöser varandra. Inledningsvis är de ofta roliga. Mot slutet blir de ibland chockerande på ett dåligt sätt (t ex djurslakterna). Den håller inte hela vägen och borde varit avsevärt mycket kortare. Någon handling eller något skådespeleri att kommentera finns inte. Om regissören haft en redaktör som strukit vissa av infallen och kortat filmen 30 min hade betyget blivit fyra.
Rated 26 Feb 2017
driscarpindriscarpin
Rated 07 Sep 2014
95
95th
Tudo começa com uma menção à Bataille, depois se tranforma numa coisa meio Tati, meio desenho do Pateta, seguido de uma ode à Marx, Engels, menções à Buñuel, Rousseau, Demy, Emily Bronte, Carroll, Flaubert, Mozart, Freud. Isso que chamo de filme pós-moderno. O lance é que parece um pré-Discreto Charme da Burguesia.
Rated 07 Sep 2014
slantmagSlantMag
Rated 08 Nov 2010
40
97th
"Weekend is a luridly colorful compendium of aesthetic juxtapositions and audio-visual schisms that evoke the frustrated tenor of the era." - Eric Henderson
Rated 08 Nov 2010
oskarhuoskarhu
Rated 14 Aug 2014
84
91st
Good mix of philosophy, farce and funny. More innovative than most of Godard's films.
Rated 14 Aug 2014
trixrabbiTrixRabbi
Rated 15 Dec 2015
84
86th
Godard right on the verge of dipping right into his anti-commercial diatribe film era, and I think this is one of my favorites of his. Vibrant, very funny, a clear message.
Rated 15 Dec 2015
gnalkhereGnalkhere
Rated 11 Dec 2012
95
97th
I felt like I got shot in the face when I watched this film. Hands down my favourite Godard.
Rated 11 Dec 2012
glmglm
Rated 24 Apr 2012
83
74th
83.250
Rated 24 Apr 2012
jakeaestheteJakeAesthete
Rated 25 Feb 2013
50
47th
"Is this true? Or a nightmare?"
Rated 25 Feb 2013
doyler29doyler29
Rated 10 Apr 2023
100
96th
I can't describe how much I loved this film. Yanne and Darc encounter Emily Brontë and Tom Thumb, and later Jean-Pierre Léaud dressed as Saint-Just. Yanne and Darc are held captive by a man who grants them a wish, but when their wishes are hideously banal, he turns a car wreck into a flock of sheep. An Arab and an African eat sandwiches while one recites a monologue by Stokely Carmichael. I could go on ... but why bother?
Rated 10 Apr 2023
syntheseizurSyntheseizur
Rated 31 Oct 2011
85
83rd
A perfect manifestation of Godard in transition, pushing back on the charming cultural commentary of his early work and inventing a dynamic cinematic language for avant-garde political critique. He aims at the dispassion of capitalism with vignettes on sex, violence, and art, alongside the central image of the traffic jam as the futility of bourgeois life. With references that span from the subversive (Buñuel) to the conventional (Demy), it's one of Godard's most coherent experimental screeds.
Rated 31 Oct 2011
theyshoot10theyshoot10
Rated 13 Jan 2010
88
76th
236
Rated 13 Jan 2010
karatoprakkaratoprak
Rated 25 Jan 2019
35
3rd
a thinker said once, "when you say 'we', always consider who you leave out as 'they.'" i hate watching such films where the director hides his cultural privileges by mockingly criticizing the indifference of certain political or social groups. yes the indifference of the bourgeoisie is shown spot on like Godard's indifference towards animal welfare in film-making. from this perspective, the tidious surrealistic elements of 'week end' give way to its very real political structure.
Rated 25 Jan 2019
shockularSHOCKULAR
Rated 24 Jun 2022
73
49th
Bizarre and disorienting, perhaps a complete mess, yet I found it almost always compelling. It's a glorious mess. Often darkly funny, occasionally boring, but really a singular experience. I had no idea what was coming next, but more often than not it was something interesting, even if I didn't fully understand it. Usually I don't find films this pretentious this enjoyable, but what a fascinating train wreck this is. The traffic jam sequence especially stands out.
Rated 24 Jun 2022
feublofeublo
Rated 26 Feb 2019
78
48th
I'd like to know who was responsible for irritating Godard to such an extreme. A build-up of endless political and cultural debate that is clear through his scope. Interestingly enough, it's reach extends past the French bourgeois society and lingers in a much broader social spectrum.
Rated 26 Feb 2019
andaghandagh
Rated 18 Apr 2010
90
79th
This will probably actually happen one day in real life, good times.
Rated 18 Apr 2010
schnofelschnofel
Rated 05 Sep 2010
75
84th
Godard always rambles, but here he at least declares his apocalypse of society, cinema and self. An entry point.
Rated 05 Sep 2010
icarusIcarus
Rated 31 Mar 2014
83
72nd
When long takes and tracking shots really mattered.
Rated 31 Mar 2014
vinegarbobVinegarBob
Rated 13 Jul 2011
40
17th
There are some impressive scenes and the overall air of subversity is well executed. Much of the time though I felt as if Godard was purposely trying to annoy me, and for the most part he succeeded.
Rated 13 Jul 2011
mechatiggerMechatigger
Rated 05 Mar 2009
86
74th
One of Godard's most daring and disturbing diatribes against the capitalist societies of the West.
Rated 05 Mar 2009
theyshoot11theyshoot11
Rated 30 Nov 2011
88
76th
#247
Rated 30 Nov 2011
caffecaffe
Rated 07 Dec 2016
49
33rd
After actually enjoying a Godard movie with Masculin Feminin it's straight back to this weirdass feeling of realizing something is the work of a genius (just look at some of those magnificent shots) who also happens to be a cinematic sociopath. "Nothing is true, everything is permitted" is a motto from a different place of pop culture but seems like it might just as well be the theme of Godard's entire 60's ouevre. I'm happy this exists, but it's still not for me.
Rated 07 Dec 2016
graveyardtangraveyardtan
Rated 11 Jun 2009
80
57th
"usually i wish i could live in a new wave film, but not this one." - eric wk. that about sums it up.
Rated 11 Jun 2009
sidehackersidehacker
Rated 28 Apr 2008
73
60th
Manages to be as fun yet as dry as ever. It's sort of the perfect Godard film - playful and polemic, but some stretches work better than others. I will say that the scene with the black man and the Arabic man is actually brilliant to me, where everyone else seems to hate it?
Rated 28 Apr 2008
daxvDaxV
Rated 19 Jul 2018
98
99th
This was an incredible experience, I'm glad I decided to stick it out with this director despite how polarizing some of his material may seem this definitely falls into the category of being fantastic, vibrant fun to watch and thought provoking.
Rated 19 Jul 2018

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