A surreal tale of a married couple going on a road trip to visit the wife's parents with the intention of killing them for the inheritance.A surreal tale of a married couple going on a road trip to visit the wife's parents with the intention of killing them for the inheritance.A surreal tale of a married couple going on a road trip to visit the wife's parents with the intention of killing them for the inheritance.
- Awards
- 1 win & 4 nominations
Yves Afonso
- Gros Poucet
- (uncredited)
Yves Beneyton
- Un membre du FLSO
- (uncredited)
Juliet Berto
- Une activiste du FLSO
- (uncredited)
- …
Michèle Breton
- Girl in the woods
- (uncredited)
Michel Cournot
- Man From Farmyard
- (uncredited)
Lex De Bruijn
- Revolutionary
- (uncredited)
Jean Eustache
- L'auto-stoppeur
- (uncredited)
Jean-Claude Guilbert
- Le clochard
- (uncredited)
Paul Gégauff
- Le pianiste
- (uncredited)
Blandine Jeanson
- Emily Bronte
- (uncredited)
Louis Jojot
- Monsieur Jojot
- (uncredited)
Valérie Lagrange
- La femme du chef du FLSO
- (uncredited)
Jean-Pierre Léaud
- Saint-Just
- (uncredited)
- …
Ernest Menzer
- Ernest - le cuisinier
- (uncredited)
- …
Sanvi Panou
- Mon frère africain
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Julio Cortázar(uncredited)
- Jean-Luc Godard
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- TriviaThe tracking shot of the traffic jam was the longest tracking shot in the history of cinema at that point in time as it was 300 meters long.
- Alternate versionsFor the original U.S. theatrical release, distributor Grove Press dubbed the monologues (the garbagemen's piece on black revolution and the hippie's "ocean" poem) into English, although the rest of the film was in the original French with subtitles. A short credits sequence was also appended to the end of the film.
- ConnectionsEdited into Bande-annonce de 'Week End' (1967)
Featured review
Strange Godard
Week End (1967)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
A husband (Jean Yanne) and wife (Mireille Darc), both having affairs and wanting the other dead, take a weekend trip to her dying father's house so that they can make sure they are in his will. Along the way they get in major traffic jams, get kidnapped by Jesus, run into various weirdos including a cannibal group and other strangeness. As with Godard's A Woman is a Woman, this film starts off great but quickly hits a wall and really left me cold for the final half hour or so. While I was watching the second half of the film I began to get bored very quickly and I started thinking why this was the case with the director. I'm not sure I came up with any positive answers but Godard kind of reminds me of sitting in the dark and having someone come up from behind you and scaring you. It's a great joke but he keeps on doing it to the point where it becomes tiresome and annoying. That's the feeling I got from watching this film because I loved and respected so much of it but after a while it just started to annoy me. The sequence where everything went wrong was the concert footage, which I thought just killed the mood and feel dead in its tracks. This was followed by an overly dramatic talk about blacks in America, which was then followed by a painfully long sequence dealing with the cannibals or whatever you want to call them. By the time the film ending I was rather frustrated but I guess this is just Godard being Godard. What I did enjoy about the film was the surreal and strange nature that everything is set up. There's a brilliantly done tracking shot, which goes on and on but never gets boring and in reality the sequence is quite beautiful. Godard, trying to be annoying on purpose, has everyone honking their horns for the entire scene and it really did come off funny as did all of the strange positions that the cars were in. Another great sequence happens early on when the wife talks about being seduced by another woman and her husband. This is a pretty erotic scene that's able to do more with dialogue than a lot of films do with actually showing the sexual acts. I like the way Godard demands that the viewer put themselves into the various situations but I think he, once again, goes overboard in his thoughts and ideas of the world.
** 1/2 (out of 4)
A husband (Jean Yanne) and wife (Mireille Darc), both having affairs and wanting the other dead, take a weekend trip to her dying father's house so that they can make sure they are in his will. Along the way they get in major traffic jams, get kidnapped by Jesus, run into various weirdos including a cannibal group and other strangeness. As with Godard's A Woman is a Woman, this film starts off great but quickly hits a wall and really left me cold for the final half hour or so. While I was watching the second half of the film I began to get bored very quickly and I started thinking why this was the case with the director. I'm not sure I came up with any positive answers but Godard kind of reminds me of sitting in the dark and having someone come up from behind you and scaring you. It's a great joke but he keeps on doing it to the point where it becomes tiresome and annoying. That's the feeling I got from watching this film because I loved and respected so much of it but after a while it just started to annoy me. The sequence where everything went wrong was the concert footage, which I thought just killed the mood and feel dead in its tracks. This was followed by an overly dramatic talk about blacks in America, which was then followed by a painfully long sequence dealing with the cannibals or whatever you want to call them. By the time the film ending I was rather frustrated but I guess this is just Godard being Godard. What I did enjoy about the film was the surreal and strange nature that everything is set up. There's a brilliantly done tracking shot, which goes on and on but never gets boring and in reality the sequence is quite beautiful. Godard, trying to be annoying on purpose, has everyone honking their horns for the entire scene and it really did come off funny as did all of the strange positions that the cars were in. Another great sequence happens early on when the wife talks about being seduced by another woman and her husband. This is a pretty erotic scene that's able to do more with dialogue than a lot of films do with actually showing the sexual acts. I like the way Godard demands that the viewer put themselves into the various situations but I think he, once again, goes overboard in his thoughts and ideas of the world.
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- Michael_Elliott
- Aug 9, 2008
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- Budget
- $250,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 45 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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