Weekend (1967)

Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard 
Starring: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Anne Wiazemsky 
Duration: 105’

Precursor of the events that occurred in May ’68, revolutionary sample of an anarchy cinema in ideas, twists and styling transcendence which does not exist anymore, flagship for the amazing sequence of films made by Godard in the 60s and at the same time an authentic audiovisual attack on senses, which echoes in the same volume up until now, the risky «Weekend» comprises the crossroad where Bertolt Brecht meets Georges Bataille and Luis Buñuel meets «Alice in Wonderland».

Through a nightmarish weekend that a completely alienated bourgeois couple has during its trip from Paris to the blood-painted roads of the French countryside, Godard spreads the defeat and collapse of western civilization into a politically charged, poisonously funny, incessantly teasing and revealing landscape of chaos and fear, which consecutively plays with the conventions of the cinema medium, the audience’s tolerance and its own self. With the impact of an artistic grenade and the force of an angry manifesto, Godard’s toxic masterpiece breaks the rules and the taboos like a road roller, it contains snapshots of remarkable virtuosity (like the extensive long shot-achievement in the view of a congestion) and causes shock up until today, testing the tenacity of those who believe they have seen everything in cinema. Loukas Katsikas

Screening on the occasion of the French National Day