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Uniform Title
Week end (Motion picture : 1967)
Title
Weekend Gaumont ; Films Copernic ; Lira Films ; Comacico ; Ascot Cineraid ; directed by Jean-Luc Godard ; written by Jean-Luc Godard ; produced by Raymond Danon.
ISBN
9781604656589
1604656581
Published
[New York] : Criterion Collection : Janus Films, 2012.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (39 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Notes
At head of title: Jean Luc Godard's.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1967.
Special features: "Revolutions per second" video essay by Kent Jones ; Interviews (cinematographer Raoul Coutard, actors Mireille Darc and Jean Yanne, assistant director Claude Miller); "On location" making of footage edited into a French TV program Seize millions de jeunes; Trailers. Booklet: "The last weekend" essay by Gary Indiana; "Notes on Weekend" by Alain Bergala; "Theoretical guns: an interview with Godard, 1969" by Jonathan Cott.
Director of photography, Raoul Coutard ; editor, Agnès Guillemot ; music, Antoine Duhamel.
French dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Summary
Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring a justly famous centerpiece sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingly endless traffic jam, and rich with historical and literary references, is a surreally funny and disturbing call for revolution, a depiction of society retreating to savagery, and, according to the credits, the end of cinema itself.
Variant and related titles
Week end
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
French
Added to Catalog
January 17, 2018
Series
The Criterion collection ; 635
Credits
Director of photography, Raoul Coutard ; editor, Agnès Guillemot ; music, Antoine Duhamel.
Cast
Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Georges Staquet, Juliet Berto, Virginie Vignon, Daniel Pommereulle, Jean Eustache, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Yves Afonso, Blandine Jeanson, Paul Gégauff, Michel Courtnot, Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Omar Diop, László Szabó, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Ernest Menzer, Michele Breton, Valérie Lagrange.
System details note
DVD; Region 1, NTSC; widescreen (16:9) enhanced for widescreen TVs; Dolby digital, mono.
Audience
Not rated.
Videorecording number
CC2206D The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Comedy films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Satirical films.
Comedy films.
Satirical films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Foreign language films - French.
Also listed under
Films Copernic.
Gaumont (Firm)
Comacico (Firm)
Lira Films.
Janus Films.
Ascot Cineraid (Firm)
Criterion Collection (Firm)
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