Weekend

"Jean-Luc Godard fixes his considerable ire against French society and the broader human condition in the morbidly funny Weekend, an abstract road trip to damnation that finds the enfant terrible in peak form."

—Rotten Tomatoes

"Year after year, Jean-Luc Godard has been chipping away at the language of cinema. Now, in Weekend, he has just about got down to the bare bones. This is his best film, and his most inventive. It is almost pure movie."

—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

"This apocalyptic farce — Alice in Wonderland as reconceived by the Marquis de Sade — would mark both the high point and the end of Godard's meteoric career as a popular artist."

—VIllage Voice

Roland Durand and his wife Corinne embark on a weekend getaway to the French countryside. Each is contemplating adultery as they head for the coast, but end up ensnared in a traffic jam along the way. Hilarity ensues in this absurdist romp as it devolves into all manners of human folly and destruction, and the fated couple encounters such colorful characters as the leader of the FLSO and Saint-Just.