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This scathing late-sixties satire from Jean-Luc Godard is one of cinema's great anarchic works. Determined to colIect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple traveI across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring a justly famous centerpiece sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingIy endIess traffic jam, and rich with historical and Iiterary references, Weekend is a surreaIly funny and disturbing caIl for revoIution, a depiction of society retreating to savagery, and-according to the credits-the end of cinema itseIf.
Condition:NEW. Brand New Factory Sealed
Product Details
Actors: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne
Directors: Jean-Luc Godard
Format: Widescreen, NTSC, Subtitled
Language: French
Subtitles: English
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Criterion Collection
DVD Release Date: November 13, 2012
Run Time: 104 minutes
Special Features
New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
New video essay by film critic Kent Jones
Archival interviews with actors Mireille Darc and Jean Yanne and assistant director Claude Miller
Excerpt from a French television program on director Jean-Luc Godard, featuring on-set footage of Weekend shot by filmmaker Philippe Garrel
Trailers
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic and novelist Gary Indiana
Cast & Crew
Mireille Darc Corinne
Jean Yanne Roland
Jean-Pierre Kalfon Leader of the FLSO
Valerie Lagrange His Moll
Jean-Pierre Léaud Man in the Phone Booth, Saint Just
Jean Eustache Hitchhiker
Paul Gégauff pianist
Ernest Menzer Cook
Yves Afonso Tom Thumb
Yves Alfonso Gros Poncet
Yves Beneyton Member of the FLSO
Juliet Berto Girl in Car Crash/Mcmber of FLSO
Jean-Claude Guilbert Tramp
Blandine Jeanson Emily Bronte, Girl in Farmyard
Daniel Pommereulle Joseph Balsamo
Georges Staquet Tractor Driver
Laszlo Szabo Arab speaking for his black brother
Virginie Vignon Marie-Madeleine
Anne Wiazemsky Girl in Farmyard/Member of FLSO
Technical Credits
Jean-Luc Godard Director, Screenwriter
Raoul Coutard Cinematographer
Antoine Duhamel Score Composer
Agnès Guillemot Editor
René Levert Sound/Sound Designer
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