Weekend (2011)

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Movie
German title Weekend
Original title Weekend
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 2011
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Andrew Haigh
script Andrew Haigh
production Tristan Goligher
Suzanne Alizart
music James Edward Barker
camera Urzula Ponticos
cut Andrew Haigh
occupation
  • Tom Cullen : Russell
  • Chris New : Glen
  • Johnathan Race: Jamie
  • Laura Freeman: Jill
  • Loreto Murray: Cathy

Weekend is a British drama of the director Andrew Haigh from 2011 on.

action

Russell is invited to dinner with his straight friends on a Friday night . But it doesn't keep him there long, instead he makes his way to a gay club. There he meets Glen, who first lets him off, and Russell only starts something with another, little man. It is only when he wakes up in his apartment the next morning that it becomes clear that he took Glen with him, who 'saved' him from the other man. Glen urges Russell to tape his impressions from last night so he can use them on an art project. The differences between the very introverted Russell, who does not like to talk about his sexuality and tries not to cause a stir in his environment, and the open Glen, who would like to yell at every straight man that he is gay , come to light. Nevertheless, the two are somehow likeable. They exchange numbers and meet again and again this weekend. They get to know each other, tell each other intimate things, argue and sleep together. Among other things, Russell says that he does not know his parents because he is an orphan. His best friend, whom he knows from the orphanage, is also the father of his godchild, to whom he is invited for his birthday on Sunday afternoon. On Sunday morning, Glen's train leaves for the airport as he is going to the USA for two years to take an art class. Both are sad about it. Russell surprises Glen, who doesn't want a busy farewell scene, at the platform and kisses him in public after his best friend, who has noticed how sad Russell is, persuades him to do so. Glen gives Russell the tape with his recording back.

Publications

The film premiered on March 11, 2011 in the United States at the SXSW film festival. In the following months it was shown at many other festivals, in this country at the Lesbian and Gay Film Days Hamburg . The cinema release in Great Britain was November 4, 2011. In Germany, Weekend was shown in some cinemas from January 14, 2012. The film was released on DVD on August 21, 2012.

criticism

“Weekend” is a small, documentary-looking film about the possibility of love, which actually cannot be possible. And he's wonderful. There are no spectacular twists and turns, no highly dramatic vows of love, no misunderstandings resolved in the last second. “Weekend” only observes its two heroes with almost casual composure as they slowly discover each other. And it has seldom been seen so unaffected, so truthful and so honest as here. "

- spiegel.de

“In the cinema, gay love stories are often told as universally as possible, not least in order not to alienate a heterosexual audience. Weekend, too, with its reflections on one's own identity and the courage to get involved in a love that can only hurt, is generally valid. And yet he is primarily concerned with specific observations and a political dimension. Haigh leaves no doubt that Russell and Glen live in a hostile world. "

- critic.de

“Weekend” can be described as a queer variant of Richard Linklater's “Before Sunrise”. Heigh also focuses on an open encounter, accompanies his characters as they get to know each other, mostly in conversation, and keeps an eye on the intensities, which are growing slowly but noticeably. [...] "Weekend" uses its two protagonists to describe different offers - between retreat, confrontation and a fragile community. "

- The standard

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] Retrieved January 20, 2013
  2. ↑ Review by Michael Kienzl , accessed on January 4, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Weekend": Just try out what is possible. In: derStandard.at. July 26, 2013, accessed December 14, 2017 .