Weekend Page #2

Synopsis: A supposedly idyllic week-end trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
Director(s): Jean-Luc Godard
Production: Janus Films
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
96%
NOT RATED
Year:
1967
105 min
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Georges!

Give me the paint thing

from the trunk.

Toffee-nosed little b*tch!

- I've had enough.

- Stop it.

Stop it, that's enough!

Bastard! Sh*t-heap! Communist!

SATURDAY:

11:
00 AM

1:
40 PM

2:
10 PM

The Internationale

Unites the human race...

Go on, then, telephone to Oinville.

If you drove faster,

we wouldn't be late.

I'll drive the way I please.

We must pick up Father from the clinic.

Mother mustn't arrange it.

They're a real drag.

I know, but if Papa dictates

a new will into his tape recorder...

It wouldn't be valid.

Maybe not, but don't risk losing

your winter holiday in Mexico.

Or it'll take forever.

Of course not.

Don't worry, it'll work out.

Then why have we put poison in his

grub every Saturday for five years?

Ring and say the highway's blocked

and we'll be late.

See what happened to that Triumph?

If only it were Papa and Mama.

You bourgeois turd!

You stupid hick!

Parisian b*tch!

THE CLASS STRUGGLE

You killed the man I love!

Why drive so fast?

This isn't St. Tropez.

You can't stand us having money

when you don't, can you?

You can't stand us screwing on

the Riviera, screwing at ski-resorts!

Can't stand us throwing cash around

all year while you can't!

And in spring we go to Greece,

where dirty peasants like you...

...are thrown into jail along

with their shitty tractors.

No need to insult my tractor, miss.

I bet you don't even own it.

It belongs to a crooked union

or a crummy cooperative.

Your foreign car!

Stolen, I bet!

The heir to the Robert factories

gave it to me because I screwed him.

You impotent bunch

are incapable of screwing!

The government screws you

and your twat of a tractor!

Without me and my tractor

the French would starve.

Paul is dead!

He had the right of way.

Now he's dead.

Don't you be so sure.

He had the right.

He was handsome, young, rich.

He had the right over fat ones,

poor ones, old ones...

You shouldn't say that.

You wretched great sh*t heap, you!

You wretched little tart!

Your cut-price tractor!

It cost plenty for someone

who toils with his hands.

And my Triumph? A total loss.

You don't give a damn, do you?

And now he's dead.

You think you can shrug it off,

do you? Well, I say you won't!

Witnesses!

We had right of way, didn't we?

Sorry, but we don't have the time.

You can't just leave like that.

We're all brothers, as Marx said.

You bastards!

Bastards!

Jews! Dirty Jews!

You're disgusting!

PHONY:

GRAPH:

Your shortcuts always waste time

and that means money.

Don't bother me.

When did civilization begin?

You're worried about it?

No, it's the landscape.

Anyway, I don't understand.

What?

Didn't you hear what he said?

We're all brothers, as Marx said.

It wasn't Marx.

Another communist said it.

Jesus said it.

Anyway, I agree with you.

I don't care, even if it's true.

These aren't the Middle Ages.

What's the time?

SATURDAY:

3:
00 PM

SATURDAY:

4:
00 PM

If I humped your wife and hurt her,

would you call that a scratch?

Run them down.

Will it rain?

Certainly it will.

No, the sun's coming out.

I say it'll rain.

SATURDAY:

5:
00 PM

Can you give me a lift?

- Get in.

- Joseph!

- To Mantes la Jolie?

- It's the other way.

- Then turn round.

- You're crazy.

Go on!

I said turn round!

Get in, Marie-Madeleine.

Hurry up!

Get a move on!

Stop!

Slowly!

- Get out! Hurry up!

- You're crazy!

Get in, quick!

Be careful!

THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL

Help!

Silence! Even God has His police.

Prove it!

Will you shut up?

- Prove it.

- Help!

Shut up!

Will you shut up?

Prove it how?

Well, we're married.

We screw legally.

I bet that's not true of you two.

That's it in a nutshell!

Tell me your name, Madame.

Me? Corinne Durand.

Durand's your husband's name.

What's yours?

My maiden name?

Corinne Dupont.

Dupont is your father's name.

What's yours?

don't know.

You see, you don't even know

who you are.

Christianity is the refusal

of self-knowledge,

the death of language.

Shut up, I said!

Are you going to keep

your traps shut?

- And what is your name?

- Joseph Balsamo.

Never heard of him.

- Help!

- Will you shut up?

Listen.

I'm not surprised, the way you look:

A Reader's Digest look.

Quiet, please.

You remind me of those who wouldn't

move Andre Breton when he was dead.

Anyway, I'll explain.

Joseph Balsamo is the son of God

and Alexandre Dumas.

God's an old queer,

as everyone knows.

He screwed Dumas and I'm the result.

Thus:
I am God.

Yes, I'm God, because I'm lazy.

That's not true, my love.

- Help!

- Will you...

Will you shut up?

You, too, Marie-Madeleine.

She's nice, but she's not too bright.

Laziness, God...

Look, shut up. Pack it in, will you?

That's enough.

She's nice.

She understands laziness.

She understands about God, too.

She obeys me.

What exactly are you up to?

I'm here to inform these Modern Times

of the Grammatical Era's end...

...and the beginning of Flamboyance,

especially in cinema.

I've had enough. I'm stopping.

I'll make you a proposition.

Take me to London

and I'll grant your wishes.

Oh, sure, you loser.

Really, just look and see

what's under the dashboard.

Oh, sh*t, a miracle!

A rabbit.

Anything you wish,

if you'll take me to London.

A big Mercedes sports car?

Yes.

An Yves St. Laurent evening dress?

Yes.

A Miami Beach hotel?

Make me a blonde, a natural blonde.

A squadron of Mirage IVs,

like the yids used to thrash the wogs.

- A weekend with James Bond.

- I'll go for that, too.

Is that all you want?

Yes.

You creeps, I'll give you nothing.

Quick, a miracle, you swindler.

What, for a**holes like you?

- That'll do! Get out!

- Out!

Get out!

Out, you whore! I'll make you run!

Bastard!

Dirty Jew! I'll kill you!

Silence!

Silence!

Vade retro. Go home.

You see, the sun's come out.

Keep right!

Long live Anquetil!

Long live Poulidor!

My Herms handbag!

FROM THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

TO GAULLIST WEEKENDS

Freedom is violence.

Like crime.

It seems to be the virtue of vice...

Is the knife under the pillow?

...fighting against slavery...

...desperately.

No, in the shed.

Freedom will kill herself

in the long struggle.

Can the inconsistency of humanity

be conceived?

And the ax?

Can one believe

that man ordered society...

...in order to be happy

and reasonable?

Weary of wisdom, more like...

...nature's wisdom...

In the shed, too.

...he wishes to be unhappy

and witless.

I see nought but constitutions...

...steeped in gold, pride and blood...

...and nowhere do I see

the sweet humanity...

...and equable moderation...

...which ought to be the foundation

of the social treaty.

SUNDAY:

i cry into the void

STORY FOR MONDAY

The social treaty.

SUNDAY:

i cry into the void

STORY FOR MONDAY

I cry into the void

I call you in the midst of night

Get a move on.

Hello, can you hear me?

Are you having good weather?

Even here, in the rain

I breathe your air again

Here in the phone booth

I'm cooped for all to see

I imagine you in a bar

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Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard (French: [ʒɑ̃lyk ɡɔdaʁ]; born 3 December 1930) is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the 1960s French New Wave film movement.Like his New Wave contemporaries, Godard criticized mainstream French cinema's "Tradition of Quality", which "emphasized craft over innovation, privileged established directors over new directors, and preferred the great works of the past to experimentation." As a result of such argument, he and like-minded critics started to make their own films. Many of Godard's films challenge the conventions of traditional Hollywood in addition to French cinema. In 1964, Godard described his and his colleagues' impact: "We barged into the cinema like cavemen into the Versailles of Louis XV." He is often considered the most radical French filmmaker of the 1960s and 1970s; his approach in film conventions, politics and philosophies made him arguably the most influential director of the French New Wave. Along with showing knowledge of film history through homages and references, several of his films expressed his political views; he was an avid reader of existential and Marxist philosophy. Since the New Wave, his politics have been much less radical and his recent films are about representation and human conflict from a humanist, and a Marxist perspective.In a 2002 Sight & Sound poll, Godard ranked third in the critics' top-ten directors of all time (which was put together by assembling the directors of the individual films for which the critics voted). He is said to have "created one of the largest bodies of critical analysis of any filmmaker since the mid-twentieth century." He and his work have been central to narrative theory and have "challenged both commercial narrative cinema norms and film criticism's vocabulary." In 2010, Godard was awarded an Academy Honorary Award, but did not attend the award ceremony. Godard's films have inspired many directors including Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Brian De Palma, Steven Soderbergh, D. A. Pennebaker, Robert Altman, Jim Jarmusch, Wong Kar-wai, Wim Wenders, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.From his father, he is the cousin of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, former President of Peru. He has been married twice, to actresses Anna Karina and Anne Wiazemsky, both of whom starred in several of his films. His collaborations with Karina—which included such critically acclaimed films as Bande à part (1964) and Pierrot le Fou (1965)—was called "arguably the most influential body of work in the history of cinema" by Filmmaker magazine. more…

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