{"id":90024,"date":"2023-02-19T17:55:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T00:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=90024"},"modified":"2023-02-19T17:55:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T00:55:07","slug":"weekend-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=90024","title":{"rendered":"Weekend (1967)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Are you in a film or reality?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Poster-219x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-90025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Poster-219x300.png 219w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Poster-94x128.png 94w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Poster-197x270.png 197w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Poster.png 689w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA homicidal bourgeois couple (Mireille Darc and Jean Yanne) taking a road trip to the country encounter increasingly violent and surreal scenarios.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bourgeois Society<\/li>\n<li>Cannibalism<\/li>\n<li>French Films<\/li>\n<li>Jean-Luc Godard Films<\/li>\n<li>Living Nightmare<\/li>\n<li>Revolutionaries<\/li>\n<li>Road Trip<\/li>\n<li>Satires and Spoofs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nIn what he describes as &#8220;one of Jean-Luc Godard&#8217;s most astonishing films,&#8221; Peary notes that Godard &#8220;mixes Bunuel and Mao, slapstick and polemics&#8221; in a tale of a &#8220;bickering bourgeois couple&#8230; who both have secret lovers and plan to kill their spouses [and] drive into the country for a weekend visit with Darc&#8217;s mother,&#8221; and find that &#8220;on every road are crashed cars, Godard&#8217;s symbols for bourgeois materialism.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Fire-Bag.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Fire-Bag-1024x616.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-90033\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Fire-Bag-1024x616.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Fire-Bag-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Fire-Bag-128x77.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Fire-Bag-768x462.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Fire-Bag-1536x924.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Fire-Bag-449x270.png 449w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Fire-Bag.png 1796w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In what is &#8220;meant to represent bourgeois hell, fires devour the wrecked autos, dead bodies line the roads, and irritating leftwingers of all types come up to our insensitive traveler to spout their radical philosophies;&#8221; eventually the annoying couple&#8217;s &#8220;madcap adventure&#8221; includes kidnapping and cannibalism. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Kidnapped-Couple.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Kidnapped-Couple-1024x616.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-90034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Kidnapped-Couple-1024x616.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Kidnapped-Couple-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Kidnapped-Couple-128x77.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Kidnapped-Couple-768x462.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Kidnapped-Couple-1536x924.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Kidnapped-Couple-449x270.png 449w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Kidnapped-Couple.png 1796w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peary notes that while &#8220;Godard includes moments of political discourse, as well as references to favorite films (<a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=37547\"><em>Johnny Guitar<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=72009\"><em>The Searchers<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=22053\"><em>Gosta Berling<\/em><\/a>, etc.) and quips about the relation of art to reality,&#8221; his &#8220;main goal was to make his arrogant, cruel bourgeois couple literally go through hell.&#8221; He points out that &#8220;in the film&#8217;s most famous scene [DP] Raoul Coutard pans his camera left to right for 10 minutes as our couple drives around a traffic jam that&#8217;s as ridiculous as the ones Laurel and Hardy used to get stuck in, but just when we&#8217;re most amused we see the horrendous accident and dead bodies (the first we&#8217;ve come across) that caused the jam and are shocked out of our smiles.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Traffic-Jam.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Traffic-Jam-1024x616.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-90029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Traffic-Jam-1024x616.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Traffic-Jam-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Traffic-Jam-128x77.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Traffic-Jam-768x462.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Traffic-Jam-1536x924.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Traffic-Jam-449x270.png 449w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Traffic-Jam.png 1796w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peary argues that while the &#8220;film was most impressive when it was released,&#8221; &#8220;today the humor still has punch and the visuals are startling&#8221; &#8212; however, he finds &#8220;that the picture peters out once the guerrillas turn up.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Kidnapping.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Kidnapping-1024x616.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-90030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Kidnapping-1024x616.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Kidnapping-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Kidnapping-128x77.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Kidnapping-768x462.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Kidnapping-1536x924.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Kidnapping-449x270.png 449w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Kidnapping.png 1796w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was disappointed, but not surprised, to find that this culmination of Godard&#8217;s initial narrative output &#8212; before his formal turn to radical revolutionary politics &#8212; remains as challenging to sit through as many of his other &#8217;60s titles. It&#8217;s not easy to watch, nor was it meant to be &#8212; so it&#8217;s difficult to judge the film on anything other than Godard&#8217;s integrity to his own vision (which one could argue &#8212; may <em>have<\/em> to argue &#8212; is spot on). It&#8217;s likely that all film fanatics will want to have seen <em>Weekend<\/em> at least once (Peary refers to it as &#8220;essential Godard&#8221;), but be forewarned that it&#8217;s pretty relentless. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Notable Performances, Qualities, and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The legendary &#8220;long pan&#8221; traffic jam<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Horse-Traffic-Jam.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Horse-Traffic-Jam-1024x616.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-90035\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Horse-Traffic-Jam-1024x616.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Horse-Traffic-Jam-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Horse-Traffic-Jam-128x77.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Horse-Traffic-Jam-768x462.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Horse-Traffic-Jam-1536x924.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Horse-Traffic-Jam-449x270.png 449w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Horse-Traffic-Jam.png 1796w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Raoul Coutard&#8217;s cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Silhouette.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Silhouette-1024x616.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-90031\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Silhouette-1024x616.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Silhouette-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Silhouette-128x77.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Silhouette-768x462.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Silhouette-1536x924.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Silhouette-449x270.png 449w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Weekend-Silhouette.png 1796w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, once, but only for its historical relevance. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Historically Relevant<\/li>\n<li>Important Director<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> (<span style=\"color:red;font-weight:bold;\">Listed in <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-static\/1001Movies.htm\"><em>1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die<\/em><\/a><\/span>) <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0062480\/?\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1968\/09\/28\/archives\/film-festival-weekend-godard-film-captures-despair-and-violence.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/2011\/10\/05\/weekend-when-godard-burned-the-movie-house-down\/\">Village Voice Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/95260\/weekend#articles-reviews?articleId=1330086\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/movies\/weekend-2\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qnetwork.com\/review\/2840\">Q Network Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Are you in a film or reality?&#8221; Synopsis: A homicidal bourgeois couple (Mireille Darc and Jean Yanne) taking a road trip to the country encounter increasingly violent and surreal scenarios. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Bourgeois Society Cannibalism French Films Jean-Luc Godard Films Living Nightmare Revolutionaries Road Trip Satires and Spoofs Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: In what he describes as &#8220;one of Jean-Luc Godard&#8217;s most astonishing films,&#8221; Peary notes that Godard &#8220;mixes Bunuel and Mao, slapstick and polemics&#8221; in a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=90024\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90024"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90042,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90024\/revisions\/90042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}