Multimedia Collection
Weekend
VHS
105 minutes
1967
PN1997 .W42 1991
Despite their often-expressed desire to kill one another, a shamelessly greedy Parisian couple, Corinne and Roland, set out for a ritual weekend visit to her parents' home in the country. Enroute, the scheming bourgeois couple encounter an appallingly funny progression of traffic jams, burning cars, and cannibalistic revolutionaries.
One of the key films of the French New Wave, this frequently outrageous work mixes sex, slapstick, violence and political rhetoric to create an epic vision of the decline and fall of consumer society as it destroys itself in auto wrecks.
In French with English subtitles.
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