Weekend (1967)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Weekend |
| Original title | Week End |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean-Luc Godard |
| script | Jean-Luc Godard |
| music |
Antoine Duhamel , motifs by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| camera | Raoul Coutard |
| cut | Agnes Guillemot |
| occupation | |
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Weekend (Original title: Week End ) is a French experimental film by Jean-Luc Godard from 1967.
action
Corinne and Roland are driving to see Corinne's father to receive his will. On the way there, the world seems to have conspired against the couple. You are in a car accident and have to continue the journey on foot. You will witness more accidents, see endless traffic jams and be harassed by highwaymen in people of pseudo-philosophers. Again and again they come across apparently madmen, including a gang of cannibals disguised as Indians. They also meet fictional and historical personalities such as Alice in Wonderland , Emily Brontë and the revolutionary Antoine de Saint-Just .
background
The film was only released in German cinemas on April 25, 1969 , just under a year after it was shown in June 1968 at the 1968 Berlinale .
Reviews
The film service found that one could argue about the end of the film, but not about “Godard's virtuosity as a director”. The almost “ten-minute tracking shot along a motorcade on a country road”, which is accompanied by “a deafening background noise”, is one of the “unforgettable sequences in film history”. It is a "tremendously aggressive film that pours its criticism into an intellectual form and impresses with its formal virtuosity". For the evangelical film observer , Weekend was like a "menetekel of battered and burning cars, of scrap, blood, corpses, barbaric rites and the discussion of popular revolution theories". The result was "[e] in a consciously shocking film, which consists of an immense number of quotations, references, rhetorical tirades and critical remarks and which inevitably provokes discussion."
The website filmzentrale.com spoke of “Godard's perhaps most ambitious film”, in which “every conflict is a matter of life and death driven to the extreme”.
Award
The film ran in 1968 at the Berlinale in the competition for the Golden Bear .
literature
- Kaja Silverman / Harun Farocki: Anal Capitalism ; in: Speak of Godard . Vorwerk 8, Berlin 1998. ISBN 3-930916-18-5 . Pp. 102-133.
Web links
- Weekend in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Weekend at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Reclam's film guide . Stuttgart 2000.
- ↑ Weekend. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 51/1969.
- ↑ See filmzentrale.com