Weekend (ej svensk text)

One of the world's most influential filmmakers and a leading figure of the Nouvelle Vague movement of the '60s, Jean-Luc Godard's works have transformed the face of cinema. "Weekend" remains one of the most legendary, audacious and acclaimed films of his distinguished career. It follows a bickering, scheming bourgeois couple who leave Paris for the French countryside to claim an inheritance by nefarious means. Almost immediately, they become entangled in a cataclysmic traffic jam, which is just the beginning of a journey fraught with violent and dangerous encounters: rape, murder, pillage and even cannibalism. Farmed for its virtuoso cinematography – including a stunning a ten-minute tracking shot – Godard's dystopian road movie is a ferocious attack on consumerism.