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.
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.
Details
Director
Jean-Luc Godard
Production year
1967
Country
FR, IT
Original title
Week-end
Length
105 min.
Language
French
Subtitles
ENG
Format
DCP
Part of
Cinema Ecologica
Much in life is uncertain, but one thing is sure: climate change. Cinema Ecologica focuses on how film directors depict the relationship between humanity and the earth: from nail-biting disaster films to artistic meditations, from romantic nature experiences to astounding science fiction.
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