Dotsthavesp I wanted to but couldn't!

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Leoni Haney Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

OJT An utterly insane, yet amazing and important movie unlike anything else, except for movies made by Godard. This is arguably the peak of his career, and arguably easier, yet more difficult to watch. A mad day in a downfall of human kind, or at least modern society, where chaos rules, even in the film makers head. Some scenes are explicit, some are ridiculous with mad dialog, others are pure pornography, either for your thoughts, your eyes or for your live of classic cars or accidents.The film has some amazing bits which are both unlike anything you've seen or would believe, and some parts of the movie will annoy or even bore you, almost to death. It's a kind of dystopia downfall of human society, where it seems like the extraordinary thing are the ordinary.It's the most foul and awful weekend you could ever imagine, made with great visuals, annoyingly long scenes, hopeless cutting and amazing shots. It's political, and a very important anarchistic work, which explores both the film media, as well as the audience. Annoying sounds, extraordinary panoramic, oddly cut like in a society which have lost it's rules, and where all of nothing means something at the same time.It's in no way a perfect film. It's not supposed to be. It's supposed to make you feel something. It'll most likely be a love/hate relationship, where you have to decide what is to gain as a viewer.Most amazing scenes: 1) The opening scene with the sexual description. 2) The fighting scene with the bullying kid. 3) The amazing road accident queue with the following senseless driving. 4) The bloody animal scene... And there's more scenes hard to forget. Pick your own!Warning: Don't expect a coherent story or a meaningful point with all scenes. Enjoy if you like to see something different and wild mixed with strong visuals.

ALAN REDPATH Reality in art can never be unmediated, and the ability of any director to create reality is hampered by the act of film making itself. In Le Weekend however, Godard hasn't attempted to create realism, only the illusion of it. It's under this disguise that he drives through a dominant bourgeois ideology of radicalism and patriarchal capitalism. However, it's the disguise itself that makes this film so unreachable to many. Obscurity and pretension bulldoze through the narrative leaving the observer either bamboozled and exhausted, or gasping for more. Watching the weekend is like driving a car down a one way street, once you've started you can't turn around. On this journey, Goddard's street is like a constantly shuffling cubist painting. Enigmatic captions flash from hidden meanings, poets on drum kits nestle in forests, pianists in farmyards, live animal slaughter, cannibalism and rape. The characters sometimes seem to get into the back seat of your car at times, e.g. when the main protagonist complains about the madness of the movie he's in.The political anarchism against capitalist society seems to continuously point the observer towards the end of the road, and the brutality of the society it complains about, is met by more excessive brutality. Its Raison d'être can be folded into two ideologies. It is not only the political statement about the necessary brutality of anarchism to devour the putrid flesh of bourgeois capitalism, but the pointless guerillas fighting without any ideology seems to be of greater poignancy in the modern world. Today revolutions are breaking out across the globe, and Le weekend is Goddard's message to all of them. When the revolts succeed, the revolutionary becomes the bourgeoisie for the next generation.

Boba_Fett1138 Me and French comedies will probably never become friendly with each other. On top of that, I have still yet to see a Jean-Luc Godard movie that I actually do like.This movie is typical of French comedies of its era, with featuring many long, stretched out scene's, in which it always remains the question of actually something good or funny will be happening at the end of it. Too often the answer to this is no.But it's also no an usual comedy or movie really. It's still more artistic than anything else really and it doesn't really necessarily follow a real plot. As a matter of fact, it features an extremely simplistic written story, in which things just seem to happen at random, without making a clear point about anything.Movies of this sort often get called a social satires or commentaries but I got absolutely nothing out of this movie. If there was a message in this all I surely missed it but somehow I also don't think Jean-Luc Godard was really trying to tell anything. It seems like he more wanted to test its audience by how they would be responding to certain sequences and themes that raise up in this movie. It's a movie that mostly attempts to shock, by becoming an odd sort of anarchistic comedy.And I can surely still appreciate the whole way this movie is being made. Despite coming across as utterly pointless I still couldn't really hate it, since its a skillfully directed movie, that often is also a real pleasure to look at. Visually this movie does has some great moments in it, which mostly come from the movie its technical aspects. There is some great camera-work in this movie, which is really about the only thing that stands out about this movie.No, guess I'm just not really a Jean-Luc Godard fan.5/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

jimmy-256 Warning: animal abuse, actual animal killed. Godard slaughters a pig on camera. Godard slaughters a duck on camera. If this sort of French snuff gets you hot & horny, then by all means enjoy the flick. However, if you give half a damn about animals, you might want to avoid this film. It's your choice, but whatever you do, don't be one of those hypocrites who says, "Oh I love animals, but it's totally cool if we abuse them in horrific ways for the sake of entertainment." If you're the latter, please stick your head in a toilet and flush.Other directors who kill animals because they're too cheap to use special effects or props: Tarkovsky, Bergman, Francis Ford Coppola, Sergio Leone, Ki-duk Kim... just check out the IMDb keyword actual-animal-killed for a list of films to either avoid or grease up your pole to, depending on what floats your boat.