Weekends (French: Week-end ) is a 1967 black comedy film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard and starring Mireille Darc and Jean Yanne, both of which are major French TV stars. Jean-Pierre LÃÆ' Â © aud, the iconic comic stars of several French New Wave movies including Truffaut's Les Quatre Cent Coups and the previous Godard Masculin, FÃÆ' Â © minin , appears in two roles. Raoul Coutard served as a cinematographer; Weekends will be his last collaboration with Godard for over a decade.
The film was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival in 1968.
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Plot
Roland (Jean Yanne) and Corinne (Mireille Darc) are bourgeois couples. Each has a secret lover and conspires to kill another. They went to the home of Corinne's parents in the country to get her inheritance from her dying father, deciding to commit murder if necessary.
The journey became a chaotic pikaraque journey through the French countryside inhabited by strange characters and punctuated by a ferocious car accident. After their Facel-Vega was destroyed in a collision, they wandered through a series of sketches involving class struggles and figures from literature and history, such as Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (Jean-Pierre LÃÆ'Â © aud) and Emily BrontÃÆ' (Blandine Jeanson).
When Corinne and Roland finally arrive at her parents' place, they discover that her father has died and her mother refuses to give them a share of the spoils. They kill him and hit the road again, only to fall into the hands of a group of hippie revolutionaries (call themselves Seine and Oise Liberation Fronts) who support themselves through theft and cannibalism. Killed during the escape attempt, Roland was chopped and cooked.
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Cast
- Mireille Darc as Corinne
- Jean Yanne as Roland
- Paul GÃÆ'Ã… © gauff as Pianist
- Jean-Pierre LÃÆ' Â © aud as Saint-Just
- Blandine Jeanson as Emily BrontÃÆ'Â Â «
- Yves Afonso as Tom Thumb
- Juliet Berto as The Radical
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According to a letter from Argentine writer Julio CortÃÆ'¡zar to his translator Suzanne Jill Levine, the indirect inspiration for the film is CortÃzar's short story titled "The Southern Thruway." CortÃÆ'¡zar explains that when a British producer considered filming his story, a third party presented the idea to Godard, who did not know the source. Because he has no input for filming, Cortezzar vetoed suggestions to translate the story's title as "Week-End" to take advantage of the tie-in.
Themes and styles
Weekends have been compared to Alice in Wonderland , the series James Bond , and the works of Marquis de Sade. Tim Brayton describes it as "a movie that reads itself, tells viewers what the reading should be, and at the same time tells viewers that this reading is inaccurate and should be ignored."
References
External links
- Weekend on IMDb
- Weekend at Rotten Tomatoes
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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