The Last Weekend
By November 14, 2012
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This scathing late-sixties satire from Jean-Luc Godard is one of cinema’s great anarchic works. Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring a justly famous sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingly endless traffic jam, and rich with historical and literary references, Weekend is a surreally funny and disturbing call for revolution, a depiction of society reverting to savagery, and— according to the credits—the end of cinema itself.
| Corinne Durand | Mireille Darc |
| Roland Durand | Jean Yanne |
| Tractor operator | Georges Staquet |
| Bourgeoisie in Triumph/FLSO | Juliet Berto |
| Marie-Madeleine | Virginie Vignon |
| Joseph Balsamo | Daniel Pommereulle |
| Hitchhiker | Jean Eustache |
| Saint-Just/Man in phone booth | Jean-Pierre Léaud |
| Tom Thumb | Yves Afonso |
| Emily Brontë/Piano accompanist | Blandine Jeanson |
| Pianist | Paul Gégauff |
| Barnyard passerby | Michel Cournot |
| Barnyard passerby/Miss Gide | Anne Wiazemsky |
| Vagabond | Jean-Claude Guilbert |
| Garbage collectors | Omar Blondin Diop |
| László Szabó | |
| FLSO leader | Jean-Pierre Kalfon |
| FLSO cook | Ernest Menzer |
| FLSO assistant cook | Michelle Breton |
| FLSO leader’s lover | Valérie Lagrange |
| Director | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Written by | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Produced by | Raymond Danon |
| Director of photography | Raoul Coutard |
| Editor | Agnès Guillemot |
| Sound | René Levert |
| Sound mix | Antoine Bonfanti |
| Original music | Antoine Duhamel |
| Assistant director | Claude Miller |
By November 14, 2012
Jean Luc Godard’s exuberant, multipronged attack on the bourgeoisie is both theater of the . . . Read more »
By November 14, 2012
Jean Luc Godard’s exuberant, multipronged attack on the bourgeoisie is both theater of the . . . Read more »
By November 14, 2012
Jean Luc Godard’s exuberant, multipronged attack on the bourgeoisie is both theater of the . . . Read more »