Week End (1967 film)
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| Directed by | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Written by | Jean-Luc Godard |
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Mireille Darc Jean Yanne |
| Music by | Antoine Duhamel |
| Cinematography | Raoul Coutard |
| Edited by | Agnès Guillemot |
| Distributed by | Athos Films |
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105 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | $250,000 (estimated) |
Weekend (French: Week-end) is a 1967 black comedy film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard and starring Mireille Darc and Jean Yanne, both of whom were mainstream French TV stars. Jean-Pierre Léaud, iconic comic star of numerous French New Wave films including Truffaut's Les Quatre Cent Coups (The Four Hundred Blows) and Godard's earlier Masculin, féminin, also appears in two roles. Raoul Coutard served as cinematographer; Weekend would be his last collaboration with Godard for over a decade.
The film was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival in 1968.
Roland (Jean Yanne) and Corinne (Mireille Darc) are a bourgeois couple, although each has a secret lover and conspires to murder the other. They set out by car for Corinne's parents' home in the country to secure her inheritance from her dying father, resolving to resort to murder if necessary.
The trip becomes a chaotically picaresque journey through a French countryside populated by bizarre characters and punctuated by violent car accidents. After their own car (a Facel-Vega) is destroyed in a collision, the characters wander through a series of vignettes involving class struggle and figures from literature and history, such as Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Emily Brontë (Blandine Jeanson).
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