This film was proposed by our member Jason Kelly, who writes: 'I would like to watch Weekend by Jean Luc Godard screened on a weekend. Or some sort of JLG tribute'.
This scathing late-sixties satire from Jean-Luc Godard is one of cinema’s great anarchic works. Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilisation crashes and burns around them. Featuring a justly famous sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingly endless traffic jam, and rich with historical and literary references, Weekend is a surreally funny and disturbing call for revolution, a depiction of society reverting to savagery, and - according to the credits - the end of cinema itself.
Cast:
Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Léaud