WEEKEND (Criterion) (Blu-ray, 1967) GODARD, NEW SEALED

Description: WEEKEND godardWeekend (French: Week-end) is a 1967 postmodern black comedy film[2][3]written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, based on Julio Cortázar's short story "La autopista del Sur".[4] It stars mainstream French TV stars Mireille Darc and Jean Yanne. Jean-Pierre Léaud, comic star of numerous French New Wavefilms, including François Truffaut's The 400 Blows (1959) and Godard's earlier Masculin Féminin (1966), appeared in two roles. Raoul Coutard served as cinematographer.PlotRoland and Corinne Durand are a bourgeois couple. Each has a secret lover and conspires to murder the other. They drive to Corinne's parents' home in the country to secure her inheritance from her dying father, resolving to resort to murder if necessary. The trip becomes a chaotic journey through a French countryside populated by bizarre characters and punctuated by violent car accidents. After their own Facel-Vega is destroyed in a collision, they wander through a series of vignettes involving class struggle and figures from literature and history, such as Louis Antoine de Saint-Just and Emily Brontë.In a metafictional touch, some scenes show the characters in the film being self-aware such as a driver asking Roland after being flagged down, "Are you in a film or reality?", the film's real actors from the Italian co-production being mentioned during Corinne and Roland's search for a car to Oinville (to which they never specify further as to which Oinville they are referring to), and various intertitles which are a defining feature to Godard's films.

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