Weekend (1967)
Original title: Week End
Weekend is a 1967 French-language comedy movie directed by Jean-Luc Godard, with a running time of 1h 44m. It stars Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne and Jean-Pierre Kalfon.
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
Where to watch Weekend
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Cast
- Mireille Darc as Corinne Durand
- Jean Yanne as Roland Durand
- Jean-Pierre Kalfon as Le Chef du Front de Libération de la Seine et Oise
- Yves Afonso as Gros Poucet (uncredited)
- Yves Beneyton as Un Membre du FLSO (uncredited)
- Juliet Berto as Une Activiste du FLSO / Jeune Bourgeoise Accidentée (uncredited)
- Michèle Breton as Girl in the Woods (uncredited)
- Michel Cournot as Man From Farmyard (uncredited)
- Lex De Bruijn as Revolutionary (uncredited)
- Omar Diop as Mon Frère Africain (uncredited)
- Jean Eustache as L'Auto-Stoppeur (uncredited)
- Jean-Claude Guilbert as Le Clochard (uncredited)