Weekend

Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeoise couple traverse the French countryside while around them civilisation appears to collapse. The couple’s selfishness and amorality are exposed when they are captured by a radical guerrilla group that challenges and overturns their bourgeois values. Featuring a bravura, justly celebrated sequence in which the camera tracks along an endless, increasingly surreal traffic jam, Weekend is a savagely funny and disturbing call for revolution and a depiction of societal breakdown and the adoption of revolutionary cannibalism.

This film is part of the Truth, 24 Times Per Second: The Films of Jean-Luc Godard selection on IFI@Home.