Week End (1967)

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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.

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Directed By: Jean-Luc Godard

Written By: Jean-Luc Godard

Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Juliet Berto, Mireille Darc, Jean Eustache, Anne Wiazemsky, Paul Gégauff, Yves Afonso, Yves Beneyton, Michel Cournot, Michèle Breton

Genres: Comedy, Drama

AKA: Weekend, Week-End

Country: France, Italy

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Stars	User	Rating
9	MartinTeller	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.
6	Pickpocket	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.
5	KasperL	40 _20th
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.
4	Anomaly	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.
3	Magb	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.
2	Peppersteak	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.
2	wokelstein	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.
2	PeaceAnarchy	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.
2	BillyShears	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.
2	hehejaja	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.
2	pppatty	35 _9th
incredibly over-rated
2	burnmp3s	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.
2	Tds4a	4 _96th
For me, it's the best mix of Godard's two big loves - highly enjoyable, convention-breaking fun and polemic, cold political themes. It's completely unpredictable, filled with skits all wrapped around a central theme. It comes across as a highly-focused attack on thousands of different things at once. No other Godard has enraptured me as much as Week End did.
2	Bown	93 _96th
A beautiful mess of comedy, anger, and radical thinking.
2	LuxNatalis	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.
2	backwardsuit	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.
1	jargonscott	57 _40th
A decent enough watch, but nowhere near as accessible or enjoyable as Godard's masterpiece, 'A Bout De Souffle' (Breathless)!
1	roujin	60 _55th
Wooo! Anarchy! Politics!! Blah! It's boring, people. BORING!!! 2nd Viewing: Okay, maybe not.
1	FaultFinder	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.
1	ZayanK	67 _33rd
Yawn.
1	FrankHowley	55 _19th
Has some really cool sequence shots. Devolves into total insanity at the end, but not in a good way.
1	closedmouth	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.
1	bof	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.
1	redflag	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.

Average Percentile 62.98% from 1127 Ratings