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Week-end

Jean-Luc Godard / FR, IT, 1967 / 105 min.

Parisians get into their cars en masse at the weekend to drive out to 'la campagne', resulting in traffic chaos, wildness, cannibalism and many other forms of bourgeois bankruptcy. Apocalyptic, anarchic satire about deadlocked consumer society.

poster Week-end (Weekend) (Jean-Luc Godard, FR 1967)
Week-end is a satire full of cultural quotations, which itself then became a major icon of the bankruptcy of a childish and ruthless form of capitalism that believes 'big is best, and quantity is quality'. The scene for which cameraman Raoul Coutard laid 300 metres of rails is justly famous: an endlessly tooting congested jam of cars carrying people being eaten up by boredom and frustration.

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This movie contains foul languagePersons under 12 years must be accompanied by an adultScenes from this movie may cause fearThis movie contains scenes of violence

Director

Jean-Luc Godard

Production year

1967

Country

FR, IT

Original title

Week-end

Length

105 min.

Language

French

Subtitles

ENG

Format

DCP

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