Week End (DVD)

It's been a while since my last review, largely because I was 900 words into one when my internet explorer crashed and I felt a bit disheartened. But now I'm back exploring one of French cinema's weirdest offerings. The Basic story of Week end is that two people are travelling to try and reach Oinville. They are an unhappily married couple and are travelling to get money out of the female, Corinne's mother. The film was made in 1967, at a time of political turmoil in France. Student riots were causing problems in Paris and there were difficulties abroad in Algeria. Politics are embedded throughout this film, although you don't really need a massive ...  Read the complete review

With influences ranging from Freud to Marx, De Sade and Eisenstein having walk-on roles and the Parisian weekend transformed into an allegorical bourgeois hell, 'Week-End' is one of the defining films of the 20th Century. Born out of the nouvelle vague cinema (French New Wave), this is the terrible birth that is brought to light from J.L.Godard's obsession with prophesising the destruction and decline of the West. Even after taking into account his overt political messages, Weekend still exist as one of the most technically revolutionary pieces of cinema to emerge from his studios into a blinding glare of publicity and hostility. Not content ...  Read the complete review