Weekend

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Weekend
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NR,1hr 45min
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January 1, 1967
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New Yorker Video
Synopsis: French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's Le Weekend remains his most consistently relentless attack on the bourgeois values of his own country and the perceived imperialism of the United States. Mireille Darc plays the central character, an "average" woman who is systematically radicalized during a weekend motor trip. No sooner have the woman and her husband (Jean Yanne) embarked on their journey than they become enmeshed in the mother of all traffic jams. The motorists rave, rant, burn, rape, murder, ... Full Synopsis
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Jean-Luc Godard's vision of a bourgeois apocalypse, Weekend savages consumer society and gleefully deconstructs narrative. A typical middle-class couple's casual sojourn into the country lands them in the most nightmarish traffic jam in history. In a single, 10-minute long dolly shot, Godard reveals a seemingly interminable snarl of smashed and burning cars, bored motorists, and dead bodies. The ... Full Review
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Kirk Cameron at the ABC 3rd Annual Primetime Preview Weekend
Larry David at the 5th Annual New York Times Arts and Leisure Weekend
Maggie Lawson at the 2003 ABC Primetime Preview Weekend
Kirk Cameron at the ABC 3rd Annual Primetime Preview Weekend
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