Week end

DVD 2012

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 centerpiece sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingly endless traffic jam, and rich with historical and literary references, is a surreally funny and disturbing call for revolution, a depiction of society retreating to savagery, and, according t...

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Inheritance and succession France Drama

Married people Drama

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Comedy films Drama Feature films Foreign films -- France Satirical films Video recordings

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Criterion collection The Criterion collection The Criterion collection ; 635

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ISBN:

9781604656589
1604656581

Description:

1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (39 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
polychrome
digital
optical
mono
Dolby
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: Not rated

Other Title:

Weekend [DVD]
Jean Luc Godard's Weekend [DVD]
Week end (Motion picture : 1967)

Notes:

At head of title: Jean Luc Godard's
Special features: "Revolutions per second" video essay by Kent Jones ; Interviews (cinematographer Raoul Coutard, actors Mirielle Darc and Jean Yanne, assistant director Claude Miller); "On location" making of footage edited into a French TV program Seize millions de juenes; Trailers. Booklet: "The last weekend" essay by Gary Indiana; "Notes on Weekend" by Alain Bergala; "Theoretical guns: an interview with Godard, 1969" by Jonathan Cott
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1967
Director of photography, Raoul Coutard ; editor, Agnès Guillemot ; music, Antoine Duhamel
Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Georges Staquet, Juliet Berto, Virginie Vignon, Daniel Pommereulle, Jean Eustache, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Yves Afonso, Blandine Jeanson, Paul Gégauff, Michel Courtnot, Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Omar Diop, László Szabó, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Ernest Menzer, Michele Breton, Valérie Lagrange
DVD; Region 1, NTSC; widescreen (16:9) enhanced for widescreen TVs; Dolby digital, mono
French dialogue with optional English subtitles

Control Number:

923439

UPC:

715515101417

Other Authors:

Berto, Juliet
Comacico (Firm)
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Darc, Mireille, 1938-2017
Films Copernic
Gaumont (Firm)
Godard, Jean-Luc, 1930-2022
Janus Films
Lira Films
Miller, Claude
Pommereulle, Daniel, 1937-2003
Staquet, Georges
Vignon, Virginie
Yanne, Jean

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