Weekend [Criterion Collection]

Weekend [Criterion Collection]

Director: Jean-Luc Godard Cast: Mireille Darc
Mireille Darc
, Jean Yanne
Jean Yanne
, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Jean-Pierre Kalfon
, Valerie Lagrange
Valerie Lagrange
Jean-Luc Godard
Weekend [Criterion Collection]

Weekend [Criterion Collection]

Director: Jean-Luc Godard Cast: Mireille Darc
Mireille Darc
, Jean Yanne
Jean Yanne
, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Jean-Pierre Kalfon
, Valerie Lagrange
Valerie Lagrange
Jean-Luc Godard

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Overview

This controversial political commentary satirizes a group of weekend motorists who ignore their fellow humans in their selfish attempt to make the most of their two days off. A fender bender sets off a chain reaction of emotions and mishaps. A couple wishes to travels to visit the man's ailing father. The ensuing argument results in gunfire and panicing motorists attempting to leave behind wrecked, cars, dying people and claustrophobic traffic jams. The woman is degraded, raped, beaten and strewn with mud throughout the entire film. Guerilla warfare, the Black Panthers, and political discussions dominate the dialogue. the couple arrives too late to see the man's father who has died. Suddenly, figures from the French revolution appear, but their presence does nothing to stop the chaos of political upheaval, human greed and insanity. Jean-Luc Goddard also wrote the screenplay for this bizarre feature.

Product Details

Release Date: 11/13/2012
UPC: 0715515101417
Original Release: 1967
Rating: NR
Source: Criterion Collection
Region Code: 1
Presentation: [Wide Screen]
Sound: [Dolby Digital Mono]
Language: English
Time: 1:44:00
Sales rank: 74

Special Features

New digital restoration; New video essay by writer and filmmaker Kent Jones; Archival interviews with actors Mireille Darc and Jean Yanne, cinematographer Raoul Coutard, and assistant director Claude Miller; Excerpt from a French television program on director Jean-Luc Godard, featuring on-set footage from Weekend shot by filmmaker Philippe Garrel; Trailers; Plus: a booklet featuring an essay by critic and novelist Gary Indiana, selections from Alain Bergala's book Godard au travail: les anneés 60, and an excerpt from a 1969 interview with Godard

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Mireille Darc Corinne,Actor
Jean Yanne Roland
Jean-Pierre Kalfon Le Chef
Valerie Lagrange Moll
Jean-Pierre Leaud Saint-Just
Paul Gaugauff Pianist
Yzes Alfonso Gros Poncet,Gros Poncet
Blandine Jeanson Emily Bronte
Virginie Vignon Marie-Madeleine
Yves Beneyton Member of FLSO
Daniel Pommereulle Joseph Balsamo
Juliette Berto Girl in Car Crash/Member of FLSO,Girl in Car Crash/Mcmber of FLSO
Anne Wiazemsky Girl in Farmyard/Member of FLSO
Jean Eustache Hitchhiker
Jean-Claude Guilbert Tramp
Ernest Menzer Cook
Georges Staquet Tractor Driver
Laszlo Szabo The Arab Speaking for His Black Brother
Michel Cournot Man from Farmyard
Mons. Jojot Monsieur Jojot (uncredited)
Isabelle Pons (uncredited)
Yves Afonso Tom Thumb
Michèle Breton Actor
Omar Diop Actor
Paul Gégauff pianist
Antoine Duhamel Composer

Technical Credits
Jean-Luc Godard Director,Screenwriter
René Levert Sound/Sound Designer

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Weekend
1. Corinne and Roland Durand [4:21]
2. Analysis [9:26]
3. Scene of Parisian Life [2:20]
4. Saturday, 11:00 a.m. [7:53]
5. The Class Struggle [4:45]
6. The Exterminating Angel [7:41]
7. "My Hermès Handbag!" [1:30]
8. From the French Revlution [5:36]
9. Lewis Carroll's Way [7:11]
10. "The Most Ignorant of All" [2:20]
11. Musical Action [7:36]
12. "Screwed by Mao or Johnson" [5:50]
13. World 3 [7:17]
14. The West [4:04]
15. Scene of Provincial Life [3:21]
16. FLSO [6:24]
17. "Battleship Potemkin. Over." [2:31]
18. August, September, and October [8:16]
19. "An Unhappy Ending" [5:29]
20. Color Bars [:00]
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