Weekend

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Ollie W @RT90619198 Jul 15 Tiresome, indulgent, unpleasant. There’s an atmosphere of obnoxious nonsense throughout this entire film. See more Abigail F. @MovieNature Jul 9 Is there a way to give a movie negative one star? If so, that’s what I’d give this movie. Really tiresome and indulgent. One wonders how many people praise the movie because it is Godard. Well, in this Godard movie, I’ll say the emperor has no clothes. See more Will G @Wgoodeve 03/25/2025 A unique French film. Jean Luc Godard is a great director. This was not my favorite movie of his. Some parts were too violent and odd. It was nice to see France on film and to practice my French. See more Sam N @RT61650855 03/22/2025 Maybe it was my mood or tiredness, but Weekend didn’t click with me. I couldn’t get into Godard’s style or the film itself. I get the point he was trying to make, the politics and the artistic flair, but it all felt a bit much. I couldn’t find any humour amidst the chaos unravelling on the screen to make it bearable. One to mark down as experience—I’ll give it another go. See more Steve T @RT79021141 12/07/2024 I saw this in college not long after it was made. I had recently seen "Alphaville" and hoped that I would enjoy this one as much. It was two hours of agony. I remember looking at my watch, thinking that at least two hours must have gone by so it would be over soon, only to find it had only been on for an hour. I remember the principal characters driving through the countryside with horrible accidents with horrendous injuries all along the road. And then the final part of the film with the "cannibal-rapists-revolutionaries" was just plain stupid, ending (spoiler alert) with the woman saying she would have more later when told that the stew she'd been eating included her husband. Maybe it is great "art" at some level, but if you just want to run out of the theater, you won't appreciate that. At least half of his subsequent film "Sympathy for the Devil" let you see the Stones making that song, but the other half of it was awful enough that it got the kind of ratings that "Weekend" should have received. See more William L @RT77267842 07/22/2021 Godard tries to be Jacques Tati, except angrier, stranger, and less subtle. Bringing a higher budget doesn't mean that you automatically make a film particularly insightful. It's a grab bag of randomness pretending to be targeted surrealism, paired with attempts at philosophy, geopolitics, and criticisms of consumerism; in other words, its Godard preening himself in front of a mirror. A woman standing next to a firey pileup, loudly wailing over the fate of her Hermes handbag instead of the human toll of the accident; how creative and sharp. With an endless stream of car crashes and fake blood, Weekend feels like its strangeness is simply for the sake of strangeness or an imitation of other films rather than anything more substantial. Along with Alphaville, Weekend is really forcing me to question whether or not Godard is more than a recognizable name that lucked into some early successes before falling in love with the idea of himself that contemporary critics developed. (1.5/5) See more Read all reviews

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