Weekend [videorecording] /
- Widescreen version.
- [New York] : New Yorker Video, [2005]
- 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Originally produced or released in 1967. "A New Yorker Films release." Special features: Audio commentary by critic David Sterrit; interviews with Raoul Coutard and Mike Figgis. Run time: approx. 105 min.
A venal Paris couple make plans to visit the parents of the wife in the countryside. While they discuss their plans for the weekend, they also talk about their erotic relationship. The scene shifts and they go to their car and head for a trip to the country. What begins as a weekend drive to the in-laws becomes a trip through a modern hell. This film is one of the truly great works of late 20th century cinema. It is a wild, reckless satire, an attack on every aspect of French and Western culture, politics, and customs. Godard uses some of the most bizarre images to make his jests against the West -- exploding bombs, radical agit prop theatrics, slapstick, and an amazing range of visual and verbal metaphors and symbols. The film will not appeal to every taste -- its corrosive and madcap humor may require more credulity than some viewers are willing to give it. Even so, the film will startle even the most resistant. Mirielle Darc, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Jean Yanne. Notes: Photographed by Raoul Coutard. Music by Antoine Duhamel. Screenplay by Godard. A middle class couple on a weekend trip get caught up in an armed liberation struggle. A sarcastic portrait of France in 1967.