As the 1960s went on Jean-Luc Godard kept up the kind of brash, zany, experimental style with which he made his name and became a cornerstone of the French New Wave, but his work increasingly showed a political consciousness sparked by the explosion of the consumer society in that decade. The class of haves, in his view, were being increasingly selfish and dog-eat-dog, while the have-nots of the world could not be…
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Mireille Darc
Corinne Durand
Jean Yanne
Roland Durand
Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Le Chef du Front de Libération de la Seine et Oise
Yves Afonso
Gros Poucet (uncredited)
Yves Beneyton
Un Membre du FLSO (uncredited)
Juliet Berto
Une Activiste du FLSO / Jeune Bourgeoise Accidentée (uncredited)
Michèle Breton
Girl in the Woods (uncredited)
Michel Cournot
Man From Farmyard (uncredited)
Lex De Bruijn
Revolutionary (uncredited)
Omar Diop
Mon Frère Africain (uncredited)
Jean Eustache
L'Auto-Stoppeur (uncredited)
Jean-Claude Guilbert
Le Clochard (uncredited)
Paul Gégauff
Le Pianiste (uncredited)
Blandine Jeanson
Emily Bronte (uncredited)
Louis Jojot
Monsieur Jojot (uncredited)
Valérie Lagrange
La Femme du Chef du FLSO (uncredited)
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FAQ about Weekend
What is Weekend about?
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
When was Weekend released?
Weekend was released in 1967.
What genres does Weekend belong to?
Weekend is categorised as Comedy.
Who stars in Weekend?
The cast of Weekend includes Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Yves Afonso, Yves Beneyton.