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Friday, Aug 2, 2019
8:30 PM (105 mins)
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BAMPFA
Weekend
Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Yves Alfonso,
Godard brilliantly and satirically depicts the horrors of bourgeois ideology in this, his most Buñuelian film; L’age d’or meets Road Warrior in the spectacle of Parisians fighting for their weekend leisure. Weekend is an explosion of images and ideas screeching toward a car wreck of a plot, along the way shattering all illusions of fiction or comfortable “art.” Here we see une femme mariée—Mireille Darc—romping through car-nage and forest in her Paris fashions, throwing a tantrum over the loss of her Hermès handbag in a bloody auto wreck, confronting the Maoists of La Chinoise, who themselves have evolved beyond summer-vacation theorizing. Just after the fiery crash, enter Jean-Pierre Léaud, dressed as St. Just and calmly reading the latter’s revolutionary prose, one of many such well-placed anomalies. “What a lousy film; all we meet are crazy people,” says Emily Brontë to Tom Thumb. “This isn’t a novel,” the other replies, “it’s a film. A film is life.”
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Jean Luc Godard
Cinematographer
- Raoul Coutard
Language
- French
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- 35mm
- 105 mins
Source
- Janus Films