Weekend [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	Mireille Darc Jean Yanne Jean-Pierre Kalfon Yves Afonso Yves Beneyton
	Video by:	New Yorker Video
	Sales Rank:	217238

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Actor(s):
Mireille Darc
Jean Yanne
Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Yves Afonso
Yves Beneyton

Creators:
Raoul Coutard (Cinematographer)
Jean-Luc Godard (Writer)
Agnès Guillemot (Editor)
Julio Cortázar (Writer)

Director(s):
Jean-Luc Godard

Recording label: New Yorker Video
EAN: 9786302149487
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 6302149487
Format: Color, Subtitled, NTSC,
Release Date: 1998-01-01
Universal product code (UPC): 717119249137
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: NR (Not Rated)

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Jean-Luc Godard and Luis Buñuel enjoyed an ardent misanthropic duel in the '60s and '70s, but who won is anyone's call. Godard's Weekend lays down the trump in a harrowing and darkly funny allegory in which social mores fray along political lines. Played out in a metafilm in which characters question their own reality, a morally bankrupt Parisian couple tries to leave the city on a much-loathed country holiday with the wife's parents. Along the way, endless traffic jams, sudden violence, and vistas of gory car crashes underscore their corrupted values. Their lethal encounter with the in-laws and kidnap by an anarchic band of radical cannibals finds the couple--and presumably "decent" society with them--reverting to a nasty primitivism. The idea is of course that the bored, apathetic heart of the bourgeoisie is never far from acting out its most homicidal fantasies. --Alan E. Rapp

Running time: 105 minutes
Language: English (Subtitled)