Weekend
An absurdist countryside road trip becomes Jean-Luc Godard’s savage, surreal indictment of bourgeois consumer society sliding into annihilation.
Overview
A weekend getaway spirals into chaos, revealing the absurdity of modern life.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Dense
- Violence
- Graphic
- sardonic
- surreal
- morbidly comic
- arthouse film night
- political cinema marathon
What critics said
Critics broadly regard the film as a morbidly funny, formally daring, and politically incisive French New Wave critique of French society and the human condition.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The countryside trip progressively transforms into traffic paralysis, revolutionary upheaval, murder, and cannibalism.
Corinne and Roland's consumer-driven concerns are placed against escalating violence and the collapse of French society.
The film uses surreal episodes, disruptive tonal shifts, and an extreme traffic-jam sequence to challenge conventional narrative viewing.
The film treats murder, revolution, cannibalism, and consumer behavior as parts of the same grotesquely comic social nightmare.
Films like Weekend, and why
pierrot le fou
shared french new wave experimentation, sardonic social satire, and radical formal disruption
the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie
shared absurdist comedy, political provocation, bourgeois critique, and confrontational editing
the exterminating angel
shared dystopian social collapse, allegorical violence, and bleakly comic critique of consumer society
la chinesa
shared surreal road movie structure, anti-bourgeois politics, and abrasive modernist style
Movie Details
- Director
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Release Date
- 1967-12-29
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 (317)
Cast
- Mireille Darc
- Jean Yanne
- Jean-Pierre Kalfon
- Yves Afonso
- Yves Beneyton
- Juliet Berto
- Michèle Breton
- Michel Cournot
- Lex De Bruijn
- Omar Diop
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Weekend about?
- An absurdist countryside road trip becomes Jean-Luc Godard’s savage, surreal indictment of bourgeois consumer society sliding into annihilation.
- What is Weekend like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Weekend as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as dense.
- Is Weekend violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in Weekend as graphic.
- What did critics think of Weekend?
- Critics broadly regard the film as a morbidly funny, formally daring, and politically incisive French New Wave critique of French society and the human condition.
- Which films are like Weekend?
- Films with a similar feel include pierrot le fou, the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie, the exterminating angel, and la chinesa.
- How long is Weekend?
- Weekend runs 104 minutes.
- Where can I watch Weekend?
- In United States, Weekend streams on HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max.
