Throw in an election season, and these toxic sensations are only exacerbated.
Outside the couple’s idyllic lifestyle, society has collapsed.
Godard and the French New Wave have an unfair connotation of pretentiousness and high-art snobbery.
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The highlight sequence inWeekendshows the couple stuck in gridlocked traffic.
With the road backed up bumper-to-bumper, they slowly drive past the standstill traffic to resume their journey.
The inseparable duo responsible for the French New Wave eventually crumbled due to irreconcilable differences.
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Jean-Luc Godard was the ultimate doomsdayer of film.
Godard’s interpretation of a broken society has no time for nuance or subtlety.
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Weekend (1967) follows a couple’s journey as their countryside trip spirals into chaos amid traffic jams, societal collapse, and unexpected violence. Through this narrative, the film critiques the disintegration of French bourgeois society, highlighting the underlying tensions and excesses of consumer culture.