A young, bourgeois couple, Roland and Corinne, get on a road trip to inherit some money, but their journey ends in an apocalypse...
"Week-end" is a wonderful joke to the audience. It's director, Godard, breaks in it every possible movie rule and does everything his way, not caring if someone will like it or not. The only way to enjoy it is to simply accept that it's a hilarious, nonsensical black comedy that criticizes a world that can't be changed anyway. Some scenes are pure anarchic fun. Like when Roland says: "This movie is crap!" or when he puts a girl from fantasy on fire.
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And talk about the guys who are eating sandwiches! Roland ask the black one to give him a bite and he gives him just a crumb and replies: "I gave you exactly the percentage from my sandwich that the USA gives to Congo compared to their GDP." Then Corinne asks the white one to give her a part of his sandwich too, for a kiss. She kisses him and he gives her half of his sandwich but also a slap. She asks why, he replies: "That's the politics of kisses and slaps. Just like the oil companies are kissing and then slapping Algerian workers." Talk about hilarious stuff! Having said that, I have to stress out that "Week-end" can get repetitive, preachy and boring at some time, especially in the last half hour which was really stretching my patience at some point ( the *authentic* scene where the revolutionaries kill the goose and the pig ). Godard is great when it comes to style, but somewhat lousy when it comes to tying up a story that fascinates you without any flashy effects. Maybe that's why I liked "Alphaville" more: it had a better, cohesive structure.
Grade: 7/10
"Week-end" is a wonderful joke to the audience. It's director, Godard, breaks in it every possible movie rule and does everything his way, not caring if someone will like it or not. The only way to enjoy it is to simply accept that it's a hilarious, nonsensical black comedy that criticizes a world that can't be changed anyway. Some scenes are pure anarchic fun. Like when Roland says: "This movie is crap!" or when he puts a girl from fantasy on fire.
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And talk about the guys who are eating sandwiches! Roland ask the black one to give him a bite and he gives him just a crumb and replies: "I gave you exactly the percentage from my sandwich that the USA gives to Congo compared to their GDP." Then Corinne asks the white one to give her a part of his sandwich too, for a kiss. She kisses him and he gives her half of his sandwich but also a slap. She asks why, he replies: "That's the politics of kisses and slaps. Just like the oil companies are kissing and then slapping Algerian workers." Talk about hilarious stuff! Having said that, I have to stress out that "Week-end" can get repetitive, preachy and boring at some time, especially in the last half hour which was really stretching my patience at some point ( the *authentic* scene where the revolutionaries kill the goose and the pig ). Godard is great when it comes to style, but somewhat lousy when it comes to tying up a story that fascinates you without any flashy effects. Maybe that's why I liked "Alphaville" more: it had a better, cohesive structure.
Grade: 7/10