Film
Weekend
- Director
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Certificate
- 18
- Running Time
- 103 mins
Bourgeois middle class couple Roland and Corinne Durand go racing into the country from Paris determined to grab a vast inheritance from her father, whom they’ve been poisoning for years and is now on his death bed, while ensuring that her mother hasn’t changed the will. Meanwhile, civilisation collapses around them into a nightmare of car crashes, murder, terrorism and, erm, cannibalism.
Jean-Luc Godard stuck it to the bourgeoisie with this 1967 satire, which is best remembered for its 10-minute tracking shot along miles of immobilised vehicles. It’s back on screen in the Watershed’s May ’68: Film and the Revolution season.
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