Weekend

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

1967 / 105min / 35mm

On their way from Paris to the countryside where they plan to appropriate an inheritance through underhanded means, a bitterly bickering bourgeois couple are caught in what seems like a thousand car pile-up traffic jam, and soon find themselves traversing a pastoral landscape where one runs the risk of encounter both hungry cannibals and a farmyard performance of Mozart’s 18th piano sonata. Godard’s incendiary send-off to commercial cinema, dense with allusions to Georges Bataille, the Comte de Lautréamont, Frantz Fanon, and various other freaks and firebrands, featuring Pommereulle in the memorable role of a carjacker with delusions of divinity.